Built by an operator. Run by operators.

DocHelp isn’t a consultancy. It’s the side of medical operations that gets done — accreditation, systems, training, recruitment, growth, the unglamorous work that keeps a practice running and profitable. Fifteen years of doing the job, not just talking about it.

DocHelp is a Melbourne-based medical practice operations consultancy founded by Jamal Al-Sharifi. It provides RACGP, AGPAL, QPA and QIP accreditation, compliance documentation and RACGP-standard cleaning, clinic audits, practice setup, design, drafting and fit-out, IT and Best Practice systems, pathology contracts and medical supplies, staff and practice manager training, recruitment including overseas-trained doctors, marketing, practice rescue, and ongoing operations and advisory support for general practices across Melbourne and Australia-wide. Phone 0403 275 771, [email protected].

Jamal Al-Sharifi, founder and principal consultant of DocHelp
Jamal Al-Sharifi
Founder & Principal Consultant
Master of Business AdministrationMelbourne Business School, 2025
Bachelor of BiomedicineVictoria University, 2013
Fifteen years in medical operationsPractice manager to area operations manager across Melbourne general practice
The founder's story

Operators, not theorists.

Medical centres have been my professional environment for fifteen years. I started as a practice manager, worked my way up through operations roles, co-founded and sold two practices, and today I oversee ten-plus medical centres across Australia — some on site, others remotely — with twenty-plus managers and over forty reception staff reporting in.

Along the way I've prepared every accreditation I've been responsible for to a pass, accredited dental practices as well as general practices, built and configured Best Practice from bare servers, negotiated pathology and supplies contracts, recruited doctors from overseas, and turned around centres that were losing money. DocHelp is how I bring that operational standard to practices that need it.

Why I started DocHelp.

Over the years I watched too many practices get burned. Not because their care was bad — because they hired the wrong help. Consultants who'd email a checklist, drop in for half a day and leave. An IT company that didn't understand clinical workflow. A recruiter who'd never sat on reception. Practices would scramble at the eleventh hour, spend tens of thousands on emergency contractors, and barely scrape through. Three years later, the cycle repeated.

I knew there was a better way because I was already doing it inside my own centres. DocHelp exists so a practice owner never has to outsource each job to a different company and then manage all of them.

"My job isn't to write a manual and hand it over. It's to embed with your team, fix what's broken, and teach your staff to maintain it — so the next accreditation cycle, the next hire, the next system change is quick, cheap and stress-free."

Hands-on. Always.

I co-founded Lorne Street Medical Practice in 2015 and Doy Street Medical Centre in 2017 — found the sites, drew the floor plans, set up the software, hired and trained the staff, passed the accreditations, grew them, and sold both. Doy Street's new owners recalled me in 2025 to stabilise operations. I know the business of a medical centre because I've done it end to end, more than once.

I write the policy manuals myself. I sit with reception staff and walk them through awkward patient conversations. I draw the evacuation diagrams. I build the Best Practice templates and the Cubiko dashboards. The hands-on work that costs tens of thousands when it's outsourced — we do internally, because we know how.

This year alone we've accredited three medical centres that each came to us having scored 80 out of 90 on their initial assessment. We rebuilt their compliance, retrained their teams, and got them across the line within two to three weeks of their deadline. That's the kind of work we do.

The team

A small team. A lot of practice.

DocHelp is intentionally a focused team — three operators, deep expertise, and no layers of management between you and the people doing the work.

Jamal Al-Sharifi, founder of DocHelp

Jamal Al-Sharifi

Founder & Principal Consultant

Fifteen years of medical operations across general practice and dental. MBA. Two medical centres built and sold. Oversees ten-plus centres today. Specialist in RACGP Standards, Best Practice migration and practice turnaround.

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Senior Practice Manager

Operations & Compliance

Experienced practice manager working client engagements alongside the founder. Specialises in policy documentation, staff training, infection control and audit preparation.

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Senior Practice Manager

Setup & Training

Focused on new practice setup and operational rollout. Hands-on with floor plans, Best Practice and Cubiko configuration, and onboarding new staff into clinical software.

What we stand for

The principles we actually live by.

i.We don't sell — we deliver.

No glossy pitch decks. No upsells. We come in, do the audit, give you an honest quote based on what your practice actually needs, and get on with the work.

ii.Maintenance over one-off fixes.

Anyone can scramble through an audit. We care whether your team can maintain compliance, revenue and morale for the next ten years without us. Train, embed, transfer the knowledge.

iii.In-house everything.

Floor plans, fire plans, evacuation diagrams, policy manuals, software builds, staff training, marketing material. We don't farm out the expensive bits.

iv.Practice owners over consultants.

We come from inside the industry, not outside. Every recommendation comes from running real medical centres today — not reading textbooks ten years ago.

Connections & networks

Fifteen years of relationships that matter.

Beyond the technical expertise, what makes DocHelp work is the network. We know the people inside the accreditation bodies, the pathology providers, the software vendors, the suppliers and the Primary Health Network — by name.

Accreditation bodies
RACGP, AGPAL, QPA, QIP, ACHS, NSQHS
Primary Health Network
North Western Melbourne PHN
Pathology providers
4Cyte Pathology, Melbourne Pathology — setup, integration and contracts
Medical supplies
YesMed — contracts and negotiated pricing for our clients
Clinical & practice software
Best Practice Premier, Medical Director, Pracsoft, Cubiko, HotDoc
Medicare & payments
PRODA, HPOS, HICAPS, Tyro
Common questions

Questions practice owners actually ask.

Who is behind DocHelp?

DocHelp was founded by Jamal Al-Sharifi, a Melbourne medical operations manager with fifteen years in general practice. He holds an MBA from Melbourne Business School and a Bachelor of Biomedicine from Victoria University, co-founded and sold two medical practices, and today oversees ten-plus medical centres across Australia. He is supported by two senior practice managers.

How big is the team?

Intentionally small: the founder and two senior practice managers, with no layers between you and the people doing the work. For larger builds and rescues we bring in trades, IT and specialist contractors we have used in our own centres.

Do you still run practices yourselves?

Yes. The founder currently oversees ten-plus medical centres on site and remotely. That is the point of DocHelp: everything we recommend is something we are doing in a live practice this month, not something we read about.

Which software and systems do you work in?

Best Practice Premier, Medical Director and Pracsoft on the clinical side; PRODA and HPOS for Medicare; HotDoc, Bp Comms and SMS for patient communication; Cubiko for practice analytics; HICAPS and Tyro for payments; Microsoft 365 for the office. We migrate, configure and train on all of them.

Want to work with us?

Every engagement starts with a free, honest, on-site audit. Two to three hours, detailed written report, no obligation.

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