National Survey of Local Health Services: Primary Care Trusts
- Abstract
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The survey was commissioned by the Department of Health, to assess patient satisfaction with local Primary Care Trust (PCT) services.
- Main Topics/Subject Category
- Making appointments, visiting the general practice, consultations with doctors, medicines, referrals, consultations with doctors from other practices, overall satisfaction with general practice, and respondents' demographic details.
- Variables
- See study questionnaire at for variable list at: http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/[…]/5678%5Cmrdoc%5Cpdf%5C5678userguide.pdf
- Keywords
- England, access to health services, age, children, choice, chronic illness, cleaning, clinical tests and measurements, correspondence, debilitative illness, decision making, doctor-patient relationship, educational background, ethnic groups, gender, general practitioners, health, health advice, health consultations, health professionals, health services, hospital outpatient services, information, information needs, information sources, interpersonal trust, local community facilities, medical care, medical centres, medical prescriptions, medical specialists, medicinal drugs, patients, public information, time
- Identifier Variables
- PCT, NHS trust
- Economic/Subject Categories
- Quality measure, Proxies
- Area of Health System
- Primary care
- Data Available
- Demographic
- Data collecting organization (s)
- Picker Institute Europe
- Data Type
- Survey (cross-sectional)
- National/Regional
- National
- Coverage (date of field work)
- 2006
- Unit of Analysis
- Individual
- Sample
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Adults (aged 16 years or above) registered with a general practitioner (GP) in England, surveyed during 2006. Sample size not given
- Availability
- ESDS, UK Data Archive
- Conditions of Access
- Free registration access
- Link
- http://www.esds.ac.uk/findi[…]ey+of+Local+Health+Services
- Contact
- help@esds.ac.uk
- Publications
- http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/findingData/publicationListForSN.asp?sn=5678