Development of a Competency Framework
Teaching quality improvement in family medicine
This guidebook on implementation of quality improvement in general practice intends to illustrate to you the scope of quality improvement in the context of general practice and introduce you to practical means of assessing and improving the quality of care where you work. There are diverse methods, tools and approaches to the QI processes in general practice, which results in multiplicity of obstacles that can be met on the way towards better quality of delivered care. You may wish to address a specific obstacle to quality improvement or to develop a new system of managing patients with a chronic condition. The guidebook is targeted at regular GPs looking to improve the quality of their practice using either an individual approach or a team based approach.