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Schedule 1— Description of quality assurance activity

1 Name of activity:

Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists – Peer Review Groups

2 Description of activity:

    This declaration applies to the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) Peer Review Groups (PRGs) activity. PRGs provide the opportunity for psychiatrists, psychologists and mental health nurses working in small, self-selected groups of peers to meet regularly to review and assess their practice and receive confidential feedback from other participants regarding the quality of their medical practice, to improve the quality of health services and patient outcomes.

    The activity will be engaged in by RANZCP, which is the organisation responsible for training, educating and representing psychiatrists in Australia and New Zealand.

    RANZCP collates de-identified information arising from surveys of PRGs showing trends in issues raised, recurring themes, the extent to which the activity informs changes to clinical practice. RANZCP will publicly report information presented at RANZCP meetings about recurrent themes identified in PRGs, as well as recommendations to inform changes to psychiatric clinical practice, and their effectiveness.

    This declaration follows the previously declared activity QAA 1/2015. This declaration is likely to encourage a greater level of participation than the previously declared activity.