GP Wellbeing

An RACGP CPD solution to stay clinically up to date and support your annual CPD

GP Wellbeing

An RACGP CPD solution to stay clinically up to date and support your annual CPD

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Last updated 20 October 2025

Your health and wellbeing matters. Use this framework to build it into your annual CPD.

This page contains resources developed by RACGP to support the wellbeing of its members. As a practical guide, we encourage you to dedicate minimum of 5 hours of your annual CPD to your wellbeing. This time can be extended as needed to address your individual circumstances.

The demanding nature of the profession, with increasing workloads, complex patient needs, and administrative burdens, can significantly impact the physical and mental health of GPs. Ensuring your wellbeing as a frontline healthcare provider is not only crucial for you as an individual, but also for the sustainability and quality of primary healthcare delivery across the nation.

Key components to consider include:

  • Ensuring you have your own GP.
  • You are engaging in annual health checks.
  • Reflecting on your diet, exercise, substance use, sleep, and social connections/ mental wellbeing etc.
  • Completing RACGP developed wellbeing self-assessment activity and your own self-care plan with the template provided. All confidential, retained by you and not required to be submitted to RACGP.
  • Access to key resources developed by RACGP, your medical defence organisation, and CPD activities available in your CPD Home.

You can complete one, several, or all of the activities—in any order—to support your own wellbeing while contributing to your annual CPD requirements.

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This CPD solution is designed for GPs seeking to strengthen their personal wellbeing and professional sustainability.

You can complete one, several, or all of the activities—in any order—to support your own wellbeing while contributing to your annual CPD requirements.

The CPD activities contained in this CPD solution are included in your RACGP membership.
 

 

CPD solution activities:

Addressing doctors' health: caring for ourselves and our colleagues (0.5 EA, 0.5 RP)

Available on-demand via gplearning

This activity aims to promote psychological health and wellbeing and will present strategies you can use to address your own health as well as that of your colleagues. It explores the risk factors and warning signs of stress and burnout and outlines the principles of self-care, including effective preventive strategies and support services available to GPs. This module will also allow you to reflect on your own self-care needs and create a self-care plan.

Upon completion your hours will be uploaded on your behalf.

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Wellbeing Self-assessment

The RACGP has developed a private and confidential wellbeing self-assessment activity for your use. Just as you practise primary prevention with your patients, this activity is designed so you can apply those skills on yourself. It will ask you to evaluate different domains of your life. After answering all the questions, a report is generated with feedback and resources based on your responses provided.

When you leave the activity, you will be unable to revisit your responses or the feedback, as we do not save an information related to this activity. We encourage you to save your report on your computer for your later use.

You will not be required to upload any aspects of your wellbeing assessment and self-care plan as part of your CPD requirements.

Check-in activity (1hr RP)

Confidentially available through RACGP 

Step One: A self-assessment tool for you to holistically evaluate different domains of your life. The tool is completely confidential. 

Completion of this activity is eligible for recognition by self-recording 1 RP CPD hours  

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Completion of self-care plan (2 hr MO)

Use the provided template, develop your selfcare plan based on personalised reports that were generated from completion of the self-assessment activity. Use the pre-filled example of the self-care plan as a guide, or read the Tips for developing your self-care plan section below.

Download the template   Download pre-filled example    Claim CPD hours  

You are not required upload a copy of your plan as part of your CPD evidence. Your self-care plan is for your private use only.

To begin, it’s worthwhile considering what these results mean to you. Write a brief paragraph where you can answer the following questions:

  • What did the check-in highlight as domains that need attention?
  • What did the check-in highlight as domains of strength?
  • Are you surprised by the results of your check-in? What does this tell you about how you monitor your wellbeing?
  • What could you start doing or continue to do so you can effectively monitor your wellbeing?

Now that you have identified the strengths and challenges in your wellbeing, you can start to think about what you want to focus on. To help you do this, look through the domains that were raised as needing attention and think about whether any of these are related. If they are, you might like to focus on the domains that are contributing to challenges in the other domains to get at the core of the matter. Likewise, think about your values and consider which domains are most important to you right now, choosing three domains that you want to focus on over the next 12 months.

The purpose of this self-care plan is to help you improve your wellbeing in the domains you have prioritised for the next 12 months. For each of the three domains you have prioritised, ask yourself: what you would like to be different in 12 months’ time? Set one goal per domain. In setting your goals, be mindful of these tips:

  • Focus on what you can control. Focusing on things in this sphere rather than something beyond your control will maximise your chances of reaching your goals.
  • Be realistic. Remember that you only have 12 months to reach your goals and you will have many competing priorities to juggle over that time.
  • Set objective indicators. To be specific about how you will know you have achieved your goal, imagine you had a video recording of you going about your daily life in 12 months’ time – what would you see and hear that is different from what is happening now?

Goals are just words on a piece of paper unless you put them into action. As you would know, one strategy to support you following through on your goals is being clear about your motivation. Beneath each goal, write a single sentence explaining why this goal is important to you right now. These sentences should encapsulate your motivation for addressing the issues you’ve identified and link to at least one of your values.

A key strategy to make each goal more attainable is outlining specific activities to achieve your goal. The more specific this is, the clearer you will be about what you need to do. When writing your plan, include details (where relevant) such as:

  • When you will do the activity (e.g., before work, at lunch time, after work, on the weekend)
  • How frequently you will do the activity (e.g., daily, weekly, monthly)
  • For how long the activity will last (this will help you schedule time for the activity)
  • What specifically the activity involves

Remember to start small and be kind to yourself; setting complex, firm plans will be difficult to follow through on. Try setting plans that allow you to increase the frequency or intensity over the 12 months rather than starting all the activities straight away.

Even though the plan template is quite brief, it can still be helpful to have an even briefer outline of what you intend to do. This next step is to write a single, short sentence that outlines the general aspirations you have for this self-care plan over the next 12 months. An easy way is to simply summarise your three goals.

Example of a completed GP Wellbeing self-care plan

To support you in completing your self-care plan, we’ve prepared a sample document for reference. You can download it by clicking here.