Table 1.
Demographics of questionnaire respondents
| Doctors | Nurses | |
| Sex | 2164 female (62.3%) | 149 female (85.1%) |
| 1279 male (36.8%) | 24 male (13.7%) | |
| 31 prefer not to answer (<1%) | 2 prefer not to answer (1.1%) | |
| Age | 1031, 20–24 years (29.7%) | 3, 20–24 years (1.7%) |
| 2315, 25–34 years (66.7%) | 18, 25–34 years (10.3%) | |
| 111, 35–44 years (3.2%) | 47, 35–44 years (27.9%) | |
| 16, >44 years (0.5%) | 106, >44 years (60.9%) | |
| Place of qualification | 3227 UK medical school (93.2%) | 169 UK (97.1%) |
| 102 European Economic Area (2.9%) | 2 European Economic Area (1.1%) | |
| 135 Elsewhere in world (3.9%) | 3 Elsewhere in world (1.7%) | |
| Disability | 3348 No (96.3%) | Not recorded |
| 8 Limited a lot (0.2%) | ||
| 69 Limited a little (2.0%) | ||
| 50 Prefer not to say (1.4%) | ||
| Ethnicity | 2078 White UK (60.8%) | Not recorded |
| 276 Other white (8.1%) | ||
| 93 Black (2.7%) | ||
| 686 Asian/Asian British (20.1%) | ||
| 93 Mixed (2.7%) | ||
| 70 Other (2.0%) | ||
| 121 Prefer not to say (3.5%) | ||
| Medical wards/departments* | 1072 F1 | 81 |
| 934 F2 | ||
| Surgical wards/departments* | 799 F1 | 48 |
| 386 F2 | ||
| General practice† | 379 F2 | 10 (includes community) |
| Psychiatry* | 127 F1 | 17 |
| 125 F2 | ||
| O&G* | 32 F1 | 8 |
| 96 F2 | ||
| Paediatrics* | 82 F1 | 17 |
| 120 F2 | ||
| Other | 40 |
*F1s and F2s indicated whether they had worked in each specialty as either their main placement or as an on-call. Figures represent those who had worked in a specialty group.
†No F1s worked in general practice, reflecting restrictions on their prescribing in community settings.