Our latest Cornerstone certificate arrived last week which was nice after all the work put in to complete our reaccreditation cycle. Fellowship of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners is the basic qualification required for a doctor to practice without requiring oversight. Beyond that are numerous post-graduate diplomas, masters degrees and even doctorates in General Practice that reflect higher level study and skills. None of these qualifications reflect the quality of the practice that the doctor works in which what Cornerstone addresses by externally assessing to ensure policies and procedures are in place to ensure a qualified doctor is practicing in a quality environment.

This link to the list of accredited practices currently shows that Tarawera Medical Centre and two Opotiki practices are the only in the Eastern Bay of Plenty that have currently successfully completed this comprehensive quality assessment. Well done to all our staff who again put in all the hard work to achieve this.

Some of the Tarawera team when our Cornerstone certificate arrived