One Stop Guide to Best Practice

One Stop Guide to Best Practice

The Council of Medical Colleges (CMC) today launched A Best Practice Guide for continuous practice improvement for doctors.

Chair of the CMC, Dr Derek Sherwood said, ‘This guide which was developed with input from across the sector, brings together for the first time principles and processes that can be used when setting up and developing programmes to enable doctors to demonstrate their competence and performance’.

‘Importantly for patients the emphasis in the Guide is on improving the quality of their care as their doctor continues to develop professionally and has the most up to date clinical knowledge”.

The Guide was developed with input and in collaboration with the CMC Member Colleges, the Medical Council of New Zealand, the Ministry of Health and the District Health Board Chief Medical Officers.

Many of these organisations have allowed their resources to be accessed by those wanting to use the Guide and these are drawn together in a Stock take, which gives definitions, resources, tools and additional information to implement the principles and processes described in the Best Practice Guide.

Dr Sherwood said ‘A major benefit is that doctors will be able to take part in speciality-specific systems designed to ensure that their performance is being reviewed and knowledge is improving, without duplication of reporting effort. Currently many of the review systems that are used across the sector operate independently of one another, and while it is extremely important to ensure that doctors remain competent, these overlapping systems create an unnecessarily reporting burden.’

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