Table 1.

Preliminary analysis of data from Clinical Practice Research Datalink showing that the requisite discontinuity exists in the data.

	Patients aged 70–74 (%)	Patients aged 75–79(%)
Notified of named accountable general practitioner	5420 (5%)	67,770 (80%)
Not notified of named accountable general practitioner	99,830 (95%)	17,161 (20%)
Total	105,250	84,931

Note: Based on preliminary analysis of Clinical Practice Research Datalink data. Figures are illustrative as this analysis was based on 2014 data and not all exclusion criteria were applied.