Those responding and agreeing to being intervieweda | ||||
Sex | Primary care (380)b | Secondary care (181)c | ||
Urban (61) | Rural (319) | Urban (141) | Rural (40) | |
Male (309) | 3 (24) | 2 (155) | 5 (102) | 3 (28) |
Female (252) | 3 (37) | 2 (164) | 2 (39) | 2 (12) |
Those not responding to invite | ||||
Sex | Primary care | Secondary care | ||
Urban | Rural | Urban | Rural | |
Male | – | 4 | 1 | 3 |
Female | – | 4 | 4 | 3 |
↵a No invited clinicians responded to say they would not like to be interviewed.
↵b Numbers in brackets throughout denote potential pool.
↵c Specialties represented included emergency medicine, general medicine, general surgery, neurology, ophthalmology, paediatrics, and psychiatry. Of the 22 clinician interviews, 13 were telephone interviews and nine were face-to-face. The average duration of each interview was 27 minutes and 32 seconds.