Audit in family practice

Abstract

At a recent meeting in Cape Town, Dr John Smith said: "The essence of good medical care must be to provide a good service to our patients: this must incorporate reviewing and assessing what we do and how we do it. It must incorporate our duty to our profession to maintain appropriate standards of professional conduct and responsibility." Accepting such inescapable requirements, which have been part and parcel of our professional life since the establishment of our Medical and Dental Council, it is but a small step to accept medical audit as an extension of continuing medical learning.