Table 2.

GPs’ work activities recorded in time–motion data over 238 hours of practice in 61 clinical sessions

Task category	Tasks, n	Proportion of all tasks (95% CI)	Category-specific task time^a	Proportion of total observed time (95% CI)	Tasks in category disrupted by operational failures, n	Proportion of operational failures that disrupted a task in this category (95% CI)
Direct care	6214	80.9 (80.0 to 81.8)	172:24:14	72.4 (70.2 to 74.6)	259	68.0 (63.3 to 72.7)
Clinical paperwork	767	10.0 (9.3 to 10.7)	30:32:52	12.8 (11.4 to 14.2)	57	15.0 (11.4 to 18.6)
Interactions	280	3.6 (3.2 to 4.1)	28:19:37	11.9 (9.7 to 14.1)	40	10.5 (7.4 to 13.6)
Internet use	103	1.3 (1.1 to 1.6)	2:18:08	1.0 (0.7 to 1.2)	9	2.4 (0.9 to 3.9)
Operational failures	381	5.0 (4.5 to 5.4)	9:12:18	3.9 (3.2 to 4.5)	16	4.2 (2.2 to 6.2)
Home visits	4	0.1 (0.0 to 0.1)	2:48:33	1.2 (−0.2 to 2.5)	0	0
Total	7749^b	100.9^b	245:35:42^c	103.2^c	381	100.1

↵a Recorded in hours, minutes, seconds.
↵b Total number exceeds total tasks observed (n = 7679) as some tasks included components of >2 main categories.
↵c Total time exceeds total observation time (238 hours) because of multitasking involving >2 main categories.