Regular Practice Reviews

One of the key roles of the Medical Council of New Zealand (Council) is to ensure recertification programmes for all doctors are robust, help assure the public doctors are competent and fit to practice, and improve the current high standards of practice in New Zealand.
Regular practice review (RPR) is a quality improvement process. It’s primary purpose is to help maintain and improve the standards of the medical profession by helping individual doctors identify aspects of their performance that could be improved, benefiting not only their own professional development but also the quality of care their patients receive.

We have some fantastic InPractice Reviewers who really enjoy visiting our members in their place of work and guiding them on their continuing professional development and career progression.

RPR involves:
Pre-visit: Review of the doctor’s professional development e-Portfolio, a phone call with the collegial relationship provider and review of multisource and/or patient feedback results
Practice visit: Interviews with the doctor and in some cases colleagues, observation of consultations, review of records and clinical reasoning
Post-visit: Report delivered to the doctor summarising findings
Post-visit follow-up: by the InPractice Medical Advisor with doctors where areas of concern or non-compliance with requirements were identified through the review.
The design of RPR is based on evidence about what works in improving practice.

All doctors enrolled in the InPractice programme who have held general registration for a period of four years or more are required to participate in a RPR once every four years.  If you have any questions about this requirement, please do not hesitate to reach out to one of our support team at support@inpractice.org.nz or 0800 884 889.