Table 2.

GP participation in out-of-hours provision by personal and practice characteristics.

Characteristic	Number in sample	Proportion in sample (%)	Weighted proportion providing out-of-hours care (%)	P-value for differences between categories
All	1610	100	40.3
Sex
Male	864	53.7	45.9	<0.001
Female	746	46.3	33.5
Age group, years
<40	441	27.4	41.5
40–44	345	21.4	46.4
45–49	330	20.5	45.0	<0.001
50–54	266	16.5	38.0
≥55	228	14.2	25.9
Member of minority ethnic group
Yes	51	3.2	40.2	0.16
No	1559	96.8	50.1
Has partner/spouse
Yes	1475	91.6	40.8	0.29
No	135	8.4	36.1
Age of the youngest child, years
No child	634	39.4	31.7
<5	307	19.1	45.3	<0.001
5–14	516	32.1	47.5
15–18	153	9.5	43.7
Number of children
0	872	54.2	34.1
1	447	27.8	45.3	<0.001
2	227	14.1	52.6
≥3	64	4.0	49.9
Partner/spouse is a GP
Yes	226	14.0	30.5	<0.001
No	1384	86.0	41.9
Spouse/partner income (£/per annum)
None	731	45.4	46.4
≤20 000	434	27.0	41.1	<0.001
>20 000	445	27.6	29.8
Salaried GP
Yes	164	10.2	29.3	0.001
No	1446	89.8	41.7
Weighted list size per GP (patients)
≤1500	1123	69.8	41.0	0.04
>1500	487	30.3	39.4
Contract type
PMS (Section 17C or Section 2C)	207	12.9	37.8	0.41
new GMS (Section 17J)	1403	87.1	40.9
Dispensing practice
Yes	89	5.5	61.0	<0.001
No	1521	94.5	39.4
Average hours worked per week excluding on-call
≤40	818	50.8	34.9	<0.001
>40	792	49.2	46.0
GP holds additional medical posta
Yes	651	40.4	47.0	<0.001
No	959	59.6	36.1
Training and teaching responsibilitiesb
Yes	723	44.9	45.6	<0.001
No	887	55.1	36.4

^aOther medical posts include: administration; management not related to the practice (for example, Health Boards); clinical services out with general practice; Royal College duties; medical committees (for example, British Medical Association, Local Medical Committee).

^bTraining GP registrars, teaching undergraduate students. PMS = personal medical services. GMS = general medical services.