Improving the Quality of Patient Care
The College is well known for its commitment to improving the
quality of patient care and understands that patients value being
treated as individuals, not just as conditions. The College
demonstrates this commitment through a range of developments and
initiatives such as supporting individual GPs to set and monitor
the standards of their individual care, and supporting practices
that seek to improve the delivery of their services by undertaking
the Quality Practice Award (link to QPA) or one of our other
quality markers. The College also works with other national
organisations (including patient representatives) to ensure that
the patients care standards being set are appropriate and
professionally led. Fellowship of the College is another way in
which your contribution to patient care, or to the discipline of
general practice, can be recognised.