Two items from the week to 28 August. The RACGP has published the sixth edition of its Standards for general practice, and for the first time a practice must keep digital records, a clinical risk register and recorded patient consent to AI to stay accredited. General practice has also elected a new college president, Dr Ramya Raman of Western Australia.
Dr Ramya Raman, a Perth practice owner and the RACGP's WA chair, has won the college presidency with an absolute majority. She is sworn in on 19 November for two years and takes over from Dr Michael Wright. She campaigned on GP funding: she wants hospitals to stop shifting unfunded work onto practices, and the government to stop using incentives to disguise inadequate rebates.
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The RACGP published the sixth edition of its Standards for general practice on 26 August. To stay accredited, a practice must now keep patient records digitally, maintain a documented clinical risk register and record patient consent where it uses AI. Most of its criteria are mandatory, and a few are labelled aspirational.
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