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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