Table 2.
Prescriber and general practice characteristics
| Individual characteristics | General practice characteristics | |||||
| Participant no. | Gender | Employer and work location | Years since registration | Years since qualifying as independent prescriber | Practice list size | Indices of multiple deprivation decile* |
| General practitioners | ||||||
| P10 | F | Practice, England (West) | 20 | 5000–≤10 000 | ≤5 | |
| P12 | M | Practice, England (South West) | 36 | 5000–≤10 000 | >5 | |
| P13 | F | Practice, Scotland | 26 | 5000–≤10 000 | >5† | |
| P14 | F | Practice, England (South West) | 31 | 5000–≤10 000 | >5 | |
| P16 | F | Practice, England (South West) | 26 | >10 000 | >5 | |
| P18 | F | Practice, England (Midlands) | 12 | 5000–≤10 000 | ≤5 | |
| Practice-based pharmacists | ||||||
| P3 | M | Practice, England (South) | >10 | >5 | >10 000 | >5 |
| P9 | M | Group of four practices, England (London) | <10 | ≤5 | <5000 | ≤5 |
| >10 000 | >5 | |||||
| >10 000 | <5 | |||||
| >10 000 | <5 | |||||
| P11 | M | Practice, England (West) | <10 | ≤5 | >10 000 | >5 |
| P22 | M | Practice, England (South) | >10 | ≤5 | >10 000 | ≤5 |
| P29 | F | Practice, England (East) | <10 | ≤5 | >10 000 | >5 |
| P32 | M | Community pharmacy/practice, England (South) | >10 | ≤5 | 5000–≤10 000 | >5 |
| Nurses | ||||||
| P5 | F | Practice, Wales | >10 | >5 | >10 000 | >5† |
| P1 | M | Practice, England (West) | >10 | >5 | >10 000 | >5 |
| P15 | F | Practice, England (West) | >10 | >5 | >10 000 | >5 |
| P19 | F | Practice, England (Midlands) | >10 | >5 | >10 000 | ≤5 |
| P21 | F | Practice, England (South) | >10 | ≤5 | >10 000 | >5 |
P9 worked in four practices; P3 and P21 worked in the same practice.
All PBPs and nurses were independent prescribers.
*Information from National General Practice Profiles41 (lower numbers indicate more deprivation).
†Derived from participant’s depiction of patient population.