Table 1.
Characteristics of general practices in 2010 and 2014
| General practice characteristics | 2010 Mean (SD) or n (%) |
2014 Mean (SD) or n (%) |
| General practices (n) | 200 | 434 |
| Registered patients (n) | 734 122 | 1 630 386 |
| General practice consultations (n) | 2 708 191 | 6 473 921 |
| Patients who had a general practice consultation (n) | 577 487 | 1 307 822 |
| Average number of registered patients per general practice | 3671 (SD=2501) | 3757 (SD=2384) |
| Level of urbanisation (n (%)) | ||
| Very urban | 40 (20.0) | 89 (20.5) |
| High | 46 (23.0) | 99 (22.8) |
| Moderate | 38 (19.0) | 84 (19.4) |
| Little | 42 (21.0) | 85 (19.6) |
| Not urban | 32 (16.0) | 75 (17.3) |
| Missing | 2 (1.0) | 2 (0.5) |
| General practices that registered email consultations (n (%)) | 64 (32.0) | 229 (52.8) |