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Citizens Advice – Survey of GPs

Survey of 1,006 GPs about non-clinical issues.
  • Four in five GPs say that patients have raised personal relationship problems (87%) or work-related issues (82%) with them during consultations in the last week.
  • On average, GPs say that they spent one fifth (19%) of their time in consultations in the last week dealing with ‘non-clinical’ issues.
  • Three quarters of GPs (73%) report that the proportion of time they spend dealing with ‘non-clinical’ issues as part of consultations had increased in the last year, with a quarter (27%) saying it has increased a lot.

Date Published: 22/06/2018

Categories: Health | Professionals | Social | UK

Client: Citizens Advice

Methodology

ComRes interviewed 1,006 GPs by telephone between 14th and 23rd February 2017. Data were weighted by former SHA region to be representative of all GPs in the UK.

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