Question reference: S1W-17233
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 24 July 2001
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Current status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 21 August 2001
Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what studies have recently been undertaken into GPs' workload.
Answer
A number of areas of current work cover aspects of GP workload. They are as follows:
- The National Primary Care Research and Development Centre in Manchester is currently undertaking a survey which covers GP workload and which will have the ability to compare the position in Scotland with the rest of the UK
- The Remote And Rural Areas Resource Initiative (RARARI) is currently looking at recruitment and retention in remote and rural areas
- An initiative looking at reducing bureaucracy has identified a number of areas where workload and bureaucracy can be reduced and we are currently taking these forward with the Scottish General Practitioners Committee of the BMA
Continuous Morbidity Recording (CMR) is an on-going information system which feeds back regular data on workload issues such as face to face clinical contacts between GPs and patients.