Characteristics of participating practices and patients
| Practice characteristics | Mean (SD) |
| Registered patients | 8744 (6288) |
| Patients aged >65 (%) | 16.48 (6.01) |
| Number of GPs | 5.5 (3.1) |
| GPs aged ≥50 (%) | 20.3 (24.9) |
| GPs aged ≤35 (%) | 11.44 (14.12) |
| Male GPs (%) | 53.7 (20.6) |
| Deprivation* | 25.5 (12.8) |
| Rurality | |
| Urban (≥10 000) | 40 (89%) |
| Towns and villages (<10 000) | 5 (11%) |
| Long-term condition caseload | 0.61 (0.15) |
| QOF score† | 975.6 (30.8) |
| Safety climate‡ | 5.2 (0.5) |
| Patient clinical characteristics | N (%) |
| Time registered in the practice | |
| >5 years | 958 (82.87%) |
| 2–5 years | 100 (8.65%) |
| <2 years | 98 (8.48%) |
| Number of long-term conditions | |
| 0 | 299 (26.51%) |
| 1 | 317 (28.10%) |
| 2–3 | 359 (32.97%) |
| >3 | 153 (14.05%) |
| Number of medications | |
| 0 | 299 (27.46%) |
| 1–2 | 306 (28.10%) |
| 3–4 | 218 (20.02%) |
| >4 | 266 (24.43%) |
| Health status (EQ-5D) | 0.778 (0.238) |
| Patient sociodemographic characteristics | |
| Age | |
| 18–34 | 126 (11.33%) |
| 35–64 | 548 (49.29%) |
| ≥65 | 438 (39.39%) |
| Gender | |
| Male | 472 (40.76%) |
| Female | 686 (59.24%) |
| Ethnicity | |
| White | 1034 (91.02%) |
| Other ethnic groups | 102 (8.98%) |
| Education | |
| Degree or degree equivalent and above | 390 (34.91%) |
| Other qualifications | 511 (45.75%) |
| No qualifications | 216 (19.34%) |
| Economically active | |
| Yes | 570 (51.35%) |
| No | 540 (48.65%) |
*Measured using the Index of Multiple Deprivation 201022 (theoretical score ranges from 1 (most deprived area) to 100 (least deprived area)).
†Quality and outcomes framework overall score achieved in the financial year 2012/2013 (theoretical score ranges from 0 (lowest quality) to 1000 (highest quality)).
‡Safety climate (PC SafeQuest) total score (theoretical score ranges from 1 (lowest perceived practice safety) to 7 (highest perceived practice safety)).
GP, general practitioners; N, number of participants; QOF, quality and outcomes framework.