title: Bridging the chasm: a professional college's role in quality.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To review the role of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry (RANZCP) in ensuring quality and to suggest ways to enhance that role.
  
  
  METHODS
  Literature relating to medical error and quality of health care was reviewed and the performance of the RANZCP assessed against that literature.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Considerable evidence exists regarding the risk of medical practice to health. The 'Quality Chasm' report is a useful analytic framework for planning quality improvement.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The RANZCP is on target with a number of quality initiatives. We need to strengthen the partnership with patients and their families in the design of initiatives.
authors.affiliation: Mental Health and RADS, Auckland, New Zealand. wayne.miles@waitematadb.govt.nz
authors.forename: Wayne
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Miles
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000592:standards*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012380:Role; D012955:Societies, Medical