Table 3.

Views of respondents about their jobs and careers opportunities for doctors working in the NHS. Values are percentages who definitely or probably agreed with each statement

	All (n=2115)	Men (n=1095)	Women (n=1020)	Hospital practice (n=1147)	General practice (n=916)
Working conditions and support
Good support from nursing staff	76.6	72.7a	80.8a	72.7b	81.7b
Good support from management	43.0	40.6	45.7	30.8b	59.2b
Hours are excessive	58.6	64.9a	51.8a	61.9b	55.0b
Working conditions are satisfactory	47.2	43.3a	51.4a	36.6b	60.1b
Career
Good career opportunities to date	77.5	79.0	76.0	81.4b	73.0b
Good opportunities for continuing professional development	67.1	67.8	66.4	68.5	65.0
Prospects are good	71.6	75.8a	67.1a	74.7b	67.9b
The UK NHS
Postgraduate training imposes excessive demands on hospital consultants	59.4	60.9	57.6	69.2b	40.2b
Reduction in junior doctors' hours has been counter to interests of NHS	55.1	59.4a	50.4a	65.8b	40.7b
NHS is a good equal opportunities employer in respect of ethnicity	40.4	44.3a	36.1a	46.8b	31.8b
NHS good is a equal opportunities employer in respect of women	58.9	61.9a	55.9a	63.1b	53.7b
NHS is a good equal opportunities employer in respect of disability	16.2	20.4a	11.5a	19.2b	12.3b
Good prospects for improvement of NHS in my specialty	47.2	48.7	45.5	49.8b	43.7b
Good opportunities for re-training in NHS	18.2	14.8a	21.8a	16.0b	20.6b

^aStatistically significant male–female difference at the 0.01 level

^bStatistically significant hospital practice–general practice difference