Table 3.

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

	GP partner	Salaried GP	Trainee GP	All GPs	PMs
High level of patient demand	97	94	85	95	95
Too many demands from external stakeholders	96	93	87	95	93
Clinical staff shortages	84	85	75	84	77
Non-clinical staff shortages	64	70	64	65	58
Not having the right skill-mix in our practice to plan for or manage change	52	50	37	50	50
Not having enough data or insufficient types of data	43	44	36	43	44
Lack of skills to manage or analyse data	43	44	31	42	41
Not all practice GPs being fully engaged with improving care and services	38	43	33	39	46
Not all non-clinical staff being fully engaged with improving care and services	37	46	41	39	42
Communication problems within the practice	28	40	29	31	31
Lack of interest in improvement issues in the practice	27	31	25	28	35

*Categories of ‘much more difficult’ and ‘somewhat more difficult’ combined.

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