Key Outcomes:

   Identify training and development needs of teams from the evidence of practice accreditation data.

   Ensure health professionals have the right education, training, skills and competencies to deliver care needs of patients and their carers.

   Self-assessment can be used by the practice to improve quality and standards of patient care.

   Promote and improve partnerships between clinicians and patients.

   Patients feel better supported through the disease process.  They have a better knowledge and understanding of their illness and treatment.

   Patients and carers benefit from a greater certainty about what  is happening, thereby suffer less anxiety, stress and physical symptoms.