The Royal College of General Practitioners Quality Committee has recently presented a local GP practice in Portadown with an award for outstanding General Practice.
The Hunter Family Practice received the Quality Practice Award (QPA) in recognition of them achieving and delivering high standards of patient care.
The practice is the 15th practice in Northern Ireland to receive the award and the first husband and wife ran practice to do so. This in itself is a remarkable achievement due to the large volume of work that is required for the award. It is therefore a testimony to the extremely high standard of care that this Practices patient’s are receiving.
Dr Hunter from the Hunter Family Practice said,
"We are delighted to receive this award, which has been the result of a prolonged period of hard work by all members of the practice team and attached staff. We thank all of them for their dedication and commitment. We have always tried to put our patients at the forefront of everything we do, and we thank them all for their loyality, especially those who agreed to be interviewed for their very kind comments"
If you would be interested in finding out more about the Quality Practice Award please click on the link below.
Health and Social Care Board Business Proposal
As a result of recent discussions with Dr Sloan Harper, Director of Integrated Care, the Quality Committee is pleased to announce that a Business Proposal has been presented to the HSCB in regards to the promotion of the Quality Initiatives Programme.
The proposal outlines to the Northern Ireland Health and Social Care Board the benefits of engaging with and actively promoting the use of the Quality Practice Award (QPA) to General Practitioners and their practices.
RCGP Northern Ireland Goes Modular
In response to a large number of requests from practices who want to take part in Quality Practice Award (QPA) using a more flexible timescale, RCGP Northern Ireland has launched a pilot 'Modular Quality Practice Award'. This aims to encourage non QPA GP practices to undertake a more manageable modularised approach to the award.
Instead of having 18 months to complete QPA, practices will have 3 years to complete six modules, covering organisational and clinical areas, involving the whole team.
Upon completion of each module a certificate of achievement is issued and if all six modules are completed within the 3 year timescale the practice will then have the opportunity to undertake the full Modular QPA visit.
To find out more about the award please click on the link below.
