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Table 1.
Characteristics of singlehanded practices and
partnerships. Values are numbers (percentages) unless stated otherwise
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|
|
Singlehanded practices
(n=206) |
Partnerships (n=606) |
P value |
|
| General practitioners' characteristics |
| Whole time
equivalent general
practitioners |
206 |
2188 |
|
| Total
No of general
practitioners |
206 |
2383 |
|
| Mean
(SD) age of general practitioner in years |
52
(8) |
44 (6) |
<0.0001 |
| Mean (SD) list size
per whole time equivalent general practitioner |
2299
(708) |
2058 (535) |
<0.0001 |
| Characteristics of practice |
| Practice with a female
general practitioner |
25 (12) |
462
(76) |
<0.0001 |
| Trent Focus research
practice |
6 (3) |
60 (10) |
0.02 |
| Current general practitioner trainer in practice |
4
(2) |
117 (19) |
<0.0001 |
| Approved general
practitioner trainer in practice |
8 (4) |
165
(27) |
<0.0001 |
| Vocational training scheme course
organiser in practice |
0 (0) |
25
(4) |
0.001 |
| Fundholder by April 1996 |
87
(42) |
314 (52) |
0.02 |
| Personal medical
services pilot by 1999 |
4 (2) |
10
(2) |
0.78 |
| Child health surveillance
provided |
187 (91) |
597
(99) |
<0.0001 |
| Dispensing practice |
28
(14) |
124 (20) |
0.03 |
| Rural practice
location |
51 (25) |
137
(23) |
0.52 |
| Mean Townsend score for electoral ward of
surgery postcode (SD) |
2.5 (3.9) |
1.5
(3.6) |
<0.0001 |
| Mean (SD) % Asian
patients |
5.7 (12.3) |
3.6
(9.9) |
0.07 |
| Mean (SD) % black
patients |
1.7 (3.01) |
1.09
(2.21) |
0.06 |
| Registered female patients |
| Girls 0-4 years |
14 102 (3) |
123 157 (3) |
|
Women  75 years |
20 892 (4) |
206 510 (5) |
|
| Total No of female
patients |
232 417 (49) |
2 221 802 (50) |
|
| Registered male patients |
| Boys
0-4 years |
14 845 (3) |
129 455 (3) |
|
| Men 75 years |
12 953 (3) |
119 839 (3) |
|
| Total No of male
patients |
241 208 (51) |
2 180 052 (50) |
|
| Total population size |
473 625 (100) |
4 401 854 (100) |
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