Table 2.

GP demographics and sampling strategy.

GP characteristic		Number of GPs interviewed	Minimum number of GPs required in sampling strategy
Gender	Male	7	4
	Female	10	4
Years of postqualification experience as a GP	0–9	2	2
	10–19	10	2
	≥20	5	2
Practice location	City centre	3	3
	Urban suburb	6	3
	Rural/semirural	8	3
Number of GPs working in the practice	1	1	1
	2–5	11	3
	≥6	5	3
Part of primary care centrea	Yes	6	4
	No	11	4
Level of deprivationb of electoral division around practice	Disadvantaged	3	2
	Marginally below average	6	2
	Marginally above average	6	2
	Affluent	2	2

^a Primary care centre: Primary care centres provide primary care services from 1 site. These services are all the health and social care services that are available in the community, outside of hospital (e.g. GP, public health nurse, home help, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, and a range of other services).²⁰

^b Level of deprivation defined according to pobal i.e. level of deprivation indices 2016 by Electoral division.²⁶