Table 2.

 Number of patient participants by Primary Care Organization (PCO) and contribution

	Phone interview only	Illness diary + phone interviews	Focus group discussion
Team PCO	2	4	1*
Merged PCO	–	7	4†
Commissioning PCO	1	4	10‡
Rural PCO	–	2	–

Overall 31 participants took part in the patient study. A few contributed to several of our data collection methods and are thus double‐counted as noted below.

*Three participants had been expected, only one turned up. This participant was also involved in the illness diary.

^†Three of these participants took part in the illness diary.

^‡None of these participants took part in the illness diary.