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Table 1 Characteristics of practices for participants and non-participants

From: Personal continuity and access in UK general practice: a qualitative study of general practitioners' and patients' perceptions of when and how they matter

 

No of GPs participating

(n = 16)

No of GPs declining to take part

(n = 7)

No of patients participating

(n = 32)

No of patients declining to take part

(n = 11)

Practice listsize

    

<2500

2

3

5

4

2500–4999

2

1

6

0

5000–7499

1

0

4

0

7500–9999

8

1

14

7

≥10 000

3

2

3

0

Practice deprivation*

    

< -1.72

5

1

9

0

-1.72 to -0.35

3

0

5

1

-0.34 to 0.61

4

3

9

3

>0.61

4

3

9

5

Practice training status

    

Training

8

3

12

7

Non training

8

4

20

4

  1. * Carstairs score (quartiles within Lothian), Negative scores are more affluent, positive scores more deprived