TY - JOUR T1 - Attitudes to audit JF - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners JO - J R Coll Gen Pract SP - 263 LP - 266 VL - 33 IS - 250 AU - W. H. R. Waters AU - J. Kelly AU - J. E. Lunn Y1 - 1983/05/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/33/250/263.abstract N2 - An exercise in audit was arranged jointly by the Local Medical Committee and the Royal College of General Practitioners in the Doncaster area. This was followed up by a questionnaire enquiring about attitudes to the audit. The proportion of doctors who did the audit was low (28 per cent overall and 7 per cent for doctors who had graduated abroad). The followup questionnaire was answered by 28 (78 per cent) of the doctors who had done the audit and by 25 (38 per cent) of those who had not. There was strong opposition to outside control of audit and some respondents even had doubts about control from within the profession. If the Doncaster findings are representative of other areas of the country, the future outlook for audit in general practice is bleak. ER -