Table 2.

Importance of facilitators*, by type of general practitioner (GP) and practice managers (PMs) (%)†

	GP partner	Salaried GP	GP trainee	All GPs	PMs
Working well together as a team	98	97	99	98	97
Good clinical leadership	97	92	99	96	95
Clinical staff have the skills needed to assess service quality	93	94	99	94	93
Routine monitoring of the care and services we provide	92	93	98	93	93
Non-clinical staff have the skills needed to assess service quality	84	84	97	85	85
Clinical staff being trained in how to improve care and services	84	86	97	86	78
Non-clinical staff being trained in how to improve care and services	82	86	96	84	77
Protected time to plan and work on improvements in care and services	76	81	95	79	55
A wide range of information available to evaluate our services	76	82	94	79	70
An active patient participation group	61	70	89	65	52
Other types of support from external organisations	44	60	86	50	54
Financial support from external organisations	36	46	86	42	38

*Categories of ‘very helpful’ and ‘fairly helpful’ combined.

†Don’t know and not applicable have been excluded from the base as well as missing answers.