The Quality Practice Award (QPA), from the Royal College of General Practitioners, is the highest award that a  practice can achieve.  In order to complete the work for the award, a large amount of clinical areas have to be reviewed and externally assessed, along with extensive examination of the patients’ experience, and demonstrating that the administrative procedures in the practice are of the highest order.

We successfully completed QPA in March this year, and this is third time we have achieved the award.  We first completed QPA in 2000 and again in 2005.  Around 200 practices in the UK have achieved QPA and we are the third practice in the UK to have achieved QPA for a third time.  We remain the only practice in Forth Valley to have done QPA.