GPTA Ltd
National General Practice
Supervisors Association
Promoting quality vocational training for
general practice.
Providing support for GP Supervisors.
(GP registrars, prevocational doctors and medical students).
Key Work 2012-2013
 Promoting the key role of GP supervisor in AGPT
 Highlight looming capacity and capability issues
 Renegotiate the NMTC
 Represent supervisor perspective on new VT standards & streamline
accreditation
 Source funding – DoHA and GPET
 Appoint CEO
 Position organization for charity status approval
 Attend UGPA – peak body for general practice
 Study on business case for supervision in 2013-14
Supervisors – cornerstone of AGPT
 Provide most training for next generation of GPs
 Apprenticeship model central
 Work within framework of quality and safety
 Whole practice team part of training package
 Additional skills, time pressure & compliance burden
 Higher accreditation standards
 Special people – “a plant to be nurtured – not a resource
to be mined”
GP Supervisor
 And Loving it!
Capacity and Capability Issues
 Rapid growth in registrar numbers
 Demand for PGPPP and medical student placements
 Challenge of recruiting new and retaining existing
supervisors
 Challenge of ensuring quality training practices
 Practices as integrated education centres – vertical &
horizontal integration, remote supervision
 National ‘bottom-up’ approach to augment current RTP
recruitment
Funding from DoHA and GPET
 Seed funding – 12 months
 Source and collate best practice resources to go online
 Develop webinars for support and training
 Contribute to regional seminars supporting regional supervisors
 Source sponsorship funding to become largely self funding
 Business case study in conjunction with GPET
 Remain tightly focused & collaborative.
 Work with all stakeholders to improve GP training & ultimately
improve health of Australian Community
Business Case for Supervision
 Often borderline
 Dependent on registrar patient numbers, practice location
and size
 Rural specific issues – housing, safe working hours.
 Growth in red tape – for practice managers and supervisors.
 Training not core business
 Distribution of increased registrar placements
 Study underway – help needed!
National Minimum Terms and
Conditions
 Underpin much of current training model
 Usefulness limited by complexity
 Simplification ahead – productive talks with GPRA
 GPT 3 and 4 in next round
 Contractor v’s employee
 Need for flexibility to meet specific rural and remote training
needs – perspective of practice, supervisor and registrar
 Other funding models -for exploration
Other Matters
 New VT standards – move from activity based to outcomes
based.
 Issues of safety, defensibility, liability, conflict of roles,
training, time and pay should supervisor responsibility
increase – reassured to date
 Accreditation of supervisor and practice by colleges separate
from that of PGMC and universities
 Compliance burden a real cost to small businesses
 Need for unified, simple and clearly communicated processes
 NGPSA supports development of quality culture beyond
accreditation
Funding and new company
 Government funding required ABN -GPTA Ltd - GPSA
 Timing issue critical – end of financial year deadline
 Constitutional deficiency of GPTA Ltd created delay in
ABN - incompatible with DoHA funding
 Accounting and Legal advice – wholly owned subsidiary
established (General Practice Supervisors Australia Pty
Ltd)
 GPSA Pty Ltd (with ABN received DoHA and
GPET)funding
Legal Advice

Repeal the current constitution of GPTA Ltd and replace it with a new constitution to
address:
a. the winding up provisions concerns;
b. stated objects that are compatible with charity status (which would be a gateway to
income tax exemption); and also,
c. objects that are compatible (with health promotion charity status which would be a
gateway to income tax deductibility).

Apply for charity status with the ACNPC, income tax-exempt status and health
promotion charity status with the ATO. Pending the outcome of the application, continue
to operate using the current structure.

If income tax exemption and ideally income tax deductibility were obtained, proceed to
roll new contracts into the newly reconstituted income tax- exempt and income tax
deductible entity.

Wind up PTY LTD company rolling any remaining assets back to the parent company
(GPTA Ltd).