Accreditation practice pointer: our clinical team supports consistent diagnosis and management of our patients

C5.1 B Our clinical team supports consistent diagnosis and management of our patients.

RACGP Standards for general practice

Primary care clinicians must have access to current, best evidence and accurate clinical guidelines available in electronic and/or hard copy to provide optimum care.

General practices can support this Criterion by:

• keeping records of clinical team meetings when the use of clinical guidelines was discussed

• having clinical team members discuss the care of patients with other team members, while ensuring patient confidentiality

• educating the practice team so that they can find and use resources and guidelines

• keeping records that show what evidence-based resources and guidelines the practice team uses

• establishing and maintaining a system that the practice team uses to pass on messages to other team members (e.g. a communication book, internal mail or email system)

• using relevant clinical guidelines for treating patients who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander origin, and for preventing and managing chronic diseases in these patients.