Box 2.

Effect on patient care

Potential addition to therapy offered to patients

“Somewhat to my surprise, as I say, it's now become part of the therapeutic range, if you like, of things that one can do for patients, and so it's actually been built in to clinical practice, in a way that I never imagined it would.” (general practitioner 9)

Discovery of key facts about patients

“I was wanting to get a proper history done on him, and also to engage him in rather more input, and so I wanted him to come in and talk to the medical students.” (general practitioner 7)

Awareness of principles and best practice

“When you're teaching about something, you're constantly aware . . . about what the principles are and what the best practice should be, and I think means that when you actually deal with the patients you tend to keep a bit closer to those.”(general practitioner 9)