Are you ready for your RACGP survey?

It is a free 24-question self-assessment that scores an Australian general practice's readiness for RACGP accreditation across the three modules of the RACGP Standards 5th edition: Core, Quality Improvement, and General Practice. The quiz takes about five minutes, produces an overall readiness score out of 100, a per-module traffic-light score (Ready, Watch, Priority), and a prioritised list of gaps with plain-English actions you can take to your governance meeting. It is designed for first-time accrediting practices and for practice managers within 12 months of their next survey.

The RACGP Standards for General Practices 5th edition is organised as three modules: Core (C), Quality Improvement (QI), and General Practice (GP), holding 17 standards and 44 criteria between them. The quiz's 24 questions span all three modules and cover the requirements most commonly cited in surveyor reports: written practice information, informed consent, interpreter access, patient feedback, results follow-up, recall systems, after-hours arrangements, clinical handover, quality improvement plans, significant event analysis, infection prevention, CPD currency, risk register, complaints, credentialing, emergency response plan, equipment maintenance, sterilisation, the doctor's bag, fire and accessibility, health record completeness, privacy policy, backups, and Notifiable Data Breach readiness. It is a readiness self-assessment, not a criterion-by-criterion audit of all 44 criteria.

Yes. The tool is completely free to use. No account, no credit card, no paid ClinicComply subscription required. Results are visible on screen as soon as you finish the questions. We ask for your email only if you want a copy of the report sent to your inbox, and you can opt out of further emails at any time.

No. It is an independent educational self-assessment built by ClinicComply, an Australian healthcare compliance software company. It is not endorsed by, affiliated with, or a substitute for an assessment by the RACGP, AGPAL, QPA, or any other approved accrediting agency. The questions are written against the publicly available RACGP Standards and common surveyor expectations. Use the result to prioritise your evidence preparation, then engage your accrediting agency for the formal survey.

Each question offers four options, each mapped to a score between 0 and 10. With 24 questions, the maximum total is 240, which we normalise to a percentage out of 100. Per-module scores are calculated the same way over the questions in that module. Bands: 80% or above is Ready, 50 to 79% is Watch, below 50% is Priority. Overall: 85+ Survey-Ready, 70 to 84 Nearly There, 45 to 69 Material Gaps, below 45 Not Yet Ready. The scoring logic is deterministic and hand-coded; no AI is used.

The tool identifies the highest-likelihood non-conformances and surfaces them as red or amber items in the per-module breakdown. It does not pass the survey for you. To pass a RACGP survey, you need the underlying evidence in place: a current practice information sheet, documented consent process, recall and reminder systems running in your clinical software, an after-hours arrangement, a written quality improvement plan with completed activities, a significant event register, current cold-chain logs, a risk register with reviewed scores, complaints register with root-cause analysis, credentialing files for every clinician, a tested emergency response plan, equipment maintenance logs, sterilisation validation, an in-date medical bag, fire and accessibility certificates, complete health records, a public privacy policy, a tested backup, and a documented Notifiable Data Breach response plan. Use the readiness quiz to prioritise which to build first.

The RACGP Standards for General Practices 5th edition is organised as three modules: Core (C), Quality Improvement (QI), and General Practice (GP), holding 17 standards and 44 criteria between them. The 6th edition, published on 26 August 2026, restructures this into five standards (Foundations of general practice, Clinical governance, Patient participation, Continuous quality improvement, and point-of-care testing). This quiz is written against the 5th edition, which is what practices are assessed against until the National General Practice Accreditation scheme transitions to the 6th edition.

AGPAL (the AGPAL Group of Companies) and QPA (Quality Practice Accreditation) are two of the four agencies the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care approves under the National General Practice Accreditation Scheme. The other two are the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS) and Global-Mark. All four assess your practice against the same RACGP Standards using the same criteria. This quiz is structured to match the criteria a surveyor from any of them will look for, so a high readiness score should correlate with a smoother survey regardless of which agency you use. The tool is not specific to any one agency's processes.

Three useful moments. First, the day you decide to pursue accreditation for the first time, to scope the work ahead. Second, 9 to 12 months before your next survey, to plan a structured remediation timeline. Third, 4 to 8 weeks before survey day, as a final readiness check after your remediation work. Many of our customers run the quiz quarterly between surveys to catch policy review drift, training currency lapses, and documentation gaps before they become non-conformances.

Five practical next steps. First, share the per-module breakdown at your next governance or practice manager meeting. Second, take the priority gap list and assign each item a named owner and a realistic target date. Third, work the red items first because these are the highest-likelihood non-conformances. Fourth, build or refresh the underlying evidence: policies, training matrices, audit cycles, registers, and meeting minutes. Fifth, retake the quiz in 8 to 12 weeks to confirm the score has moved. ClinicComply provides RACGP-aligned templates, a live Standards dashboard, and an audit-ready evidence pack if you want a system to manage all of this in one place.

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No. The quiz surfaces likely gaps based on a 24-question profile. An experienced accreditation consultant brings hands-on evidence review, mock surveys, surveyor relationships, and bespoke advice on edge cases (mixed billing, training practices, multi-site operations, after-hours models). Use the quiz to make the consultant's first visit more productive, or to decide whether you need one at all.

Yes. Core module questions test your daily backup cadence and tested restoration (C6.4 Information security) and your current Privacy Act-aligned privacy policy (C6.3 Confidentiality and privacy of health and other information). A further question covers your Notifiable Data Breach response plan and team awareness, which is an obligation under Part IIIC of the Privacy Act 1988 rather than an RACGP criterion. If you do experience a suspected breach, our free NDB Decision Tool walks the OAIC serious-harm test and produces a printable decision record.

We recommend running the quiz quarterly between surveys, before each governance meeting, and 4 to 8 weeks before your booked survey date. Most practices that retake it quarterly catch drift in CPD currency, fridge temperature logs, recall completion rates, and emergency drill cycles before those drifts become surveyor findings.

No. The RACGP Accreditation Readiness Quiz is an educational self-assessment tool. It is not legal advice, professional indemnity advice, or a substitute for consultation with the RACGP, your accrediting agency, your medical defence organisation, or your legal advisor on specific matters such as informed consent, mandatory reporting, restrictive practices, or complaint responses.