Accreditation

Search that register by address rather than by name — there is a differently named practice on Partridge Street two suburbs away, and a second PartridgeGP practice further along Anzac Highway.

It is the practice that is accredited, not the website

Accreditation is granted to a general practice by an independent body — ours is AGPAL — after the practice measures itself against the RACGP Standards for general practices, submits its evidence, and is then visited by surveyors who look at how the place actually runs. It is voluntary. No practice is required to do it, and a practice without it is not doing anything wrong.

It runs on a three-year cycle, so it is not a certificate somebody earned once and hung on the wall. Ours runs to December 2027, which means the last assessment was recent and the next one is already in view.

What the surveyors actually look at

Grouped into things a patient would recognise: how the practice communicates with you and follows up your results; how your health information is collected, kept, corrected and shared; how clinical risk is managed, from cold-chain vaccine storage to sterilisation and emergency equipment; and how the practice trains, credentials and supervises the people who work in it.

Our privacy and information management policy sets out the second of those in full, and our fees page sets out billing.

We are also a teaching practice

PartridgeGP trains registrars — the GPs on our team listed as registrars are qualified doctors completing their specialist general practice training here, supervised on site. Teaching practices are assessed separately by the regional training provider.