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Approved accrediting agencies under the NGPA Scheme

General practices wishing to become accredited to the RACGP Standards for general practices and/or RACGP Standards for point-of-care testing, will need to engage an approved accrediting agency to conduct their practice’s accreditation assessment.

Accreditation under the NGPA Scheme

Accreditation provides assurances to the community that a general practice meets expected standards for safety and quality. It is a formal program in which trained independent reviewers assess a general practice’s evidence of implementation of the RACGP Standards for general practices and the RACGP Standards for point-of-care testing.

Advisory GP18/04: Notification of significant risk

To describe the requirements for accrediting agencies to notify the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (the Commission) of significant and ongoing risks of patient harm identified during the assessment of general practices.

The National General Practice Accreditation Scheme

The Commission administers the NGPA Scheme, which supports the consistent assessment of Australian general practices against the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) Standards for general practices and the RACGP Standards for point-of-care testing.

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