Doctors seek assessment
General practitioners are asking the public to help them find out if they are doing a good job. The Family Medicine Training Programme, which has been working on a paper called “Quality in General Practice” for more than two years, is seeking public comment for the next stage of the project. The paper is one of a number of initiatives being developed by the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners related to peer review and performance assessment.
The national director of the programme, Dr John Marwick, said the project set out requirements for
good general practice. This was important for teaching doctors as well as for medical trainees.
The criteria of quality could form the basis of standards where accountability was needed, he said. The Minister of Health, Mr Caygill, welcomed the scheme, saying that general practitioners had a head-start on other doctors in terms of care and consideration.
The 37 criteria being surveyed range from care to the standard of the premises.
The paper is being sent to doctors, health workers and interested groups and individuals for comment. Replies are being called for by December 1.
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