Dr Paul Mara: These woke accreditation standards won’t fix a broken general practice
The latest edition of the RACGP’s accreditation standards has been criticised by some GPs who question the relevance of some criteria to patient care. Having…
Dr Paul Mara
Dr Paul Mara is a GP in Gundagai, NSW, and a former RDAA president.
Is the RACGP’s definition of general practice outdated, self-serving and wrong?
The RACGP has, again, changed its definition of general practice to accommodate so-called non-traditional models of the specialty. This was not simply a philosophical exercise.…
My mea culpa: Practice accreditation must be fixed or scrapped
You can call this a mea culpa, if you like. If accreditation doesn’t secure the future of general practice, or ensure patient safety or quality…
Why payroll tax will be good for general practice: Dr Paul Mara
Let me start by saying I hate payroll tax. At Quality Practice Accreditation, where I am managing director, we pay tens of thousands of dollars a year in payroll tax based on…
There’s a lot the RACGP can learn from Trump
At a small family dinner on the weekend, I asked who was going to win the election in the US. My son said: “Trump”. To which…
We’re long overdue a shake-up, can we use COVID-19 to re-engineer general practice?
It’ll be a while, I guess, before anyone again says, “it’s just a virus”. Like a lot of throw-away lines we use, it never really…
Medicare is no longer viable – here’s what we must do instead
Rebate-focused GPs are caught in an activity trap where no one is prepared to admit that consultation length impacts on quality, writes GP Dr Paul…
