The consultation period for the draft Standards for general practice residential aged care (1st edition) (Standards for GPRAC) will now close on 19 August 2022.
The RACGP released the draft Standards for GPRAC for a second public consultation in May 2020. Since then, a pilot of the Standards for GPRAC has been successfully conducted at several residential aged care facilities (RACFs).
The RACGP developed the Standards for GPRAC to address the gaps between the Aged Care Quality Standards (1 July 2019) and the RACGP Standards for general practices (5th edition). The Standards for GPRAC are voluntary and don’t seek to replace or duplicate existing requirements for accreditation against the Aged Care Quality Standards.
GPs and the broader team that provides health care are inextricably linked with residential aged care systems and infrastructure. The current Aged Care Quality Standards don’t focus on the clinical interface and systems that are crucial to supporting the provision of high-quality, safe and effective primary care in this setting.
The Standards for GPRAC were developed specifically to improve patient care and address the barriers that GPs face when delivering such vital care in RACFs.
The draft has been developed by the RACGP Working Group – Standards for general practice residential aged care and the RACGP Expert Committee – Standards for General Practices and is informed by:
- available national and international evidence
- comparable national and international standards.
There is still time to provide feedback on the draft RACGP Standards for GPRAC, which will be available on the RACGP consultations webpage until 19 August 2022.