Practice 2 | Restarted | ‘Mainly due to a change of GP and staffing levels within the team’ | GP was unaware that there had been a break |
Practice 5 | Stopped (planning to restart) | New nurse; didn't know reasons | ‘More important things to do when I split and set up practice on my own’ |
Practice 6 | Restarted | ‘Money and time … just too busy’ | ‘Lack of district nursing staff’ |
Practice 7 | Restarted | ‘The original GP that was doing it with us, he left … and also other sorts of staff problems’ | New GP; ‘Clinic had lapsed after my predecessors retirement’ |
Practice 8 | Restarted | ‘Allowed to slip while renovations were taking place’ and ‘Doctor's weren't willing to hand patients on’ | ‘Doctors weren't sending people through to the nursing people’ |
Practice 11 | Restarted | ‘Just didn't take it up, nothing done with it’ | Reasons unclear |
Practice 12 | Stopped | ‘Duplication’ | ‘Duplication’ |
Practice 14 | Stopped | ‘Duplication’ | Stopped due to limited health visitor time and lost momentum |
Practice 16 | Restarted | ‘Time’ | ‘Major concurrent administrative problems with the nursing side of our practice at the time’ |
Practice 17 | Restarted | ‘Both of the original nurses retired’ | ‘GP's weren't referring patients through to the nurse, plus a new cardiologist had been appointed (to the local hospital)’ |
Practice 19 | Restarted | Nurse unavailable | ‘Original nurse was unenthusiastic and then left. There was no time to train her replacement’ |