Violence Report 2006 final.pdf - BMA

Health Policy & Economic Research Unit
Survey Results
Characteristics of Respondents
Table 1 shows that respondents were fairly evenly divided by gender (54% males/46% females). Whilst
the majority of respondents were of white ethnic origin (95%), 4 per cent were of Asian or Black ethnic
origin. The age of respondents was wide ranging from 23 years to 85 years (average age 42 years).
Table 1 Ethnicity and gender of survey respondents (%)
White
Black
Asian
Other
Table 2 shows that 56 per cent of respondents were hospital doctors, predominantly consultants
(225/537) and 42 per cent were working in general practice, mainly as GP principals (303/407).
The majority of GP respondents worked in multiple partner practices. Table 3 shows the main
specialties of those respondents who reported working as hospital doctors.
Table 2 Current job title of respondents (%)
Male Female Total
50.9
0.2
2.3
0.6
* includes principals, non-principals, locums, registrars, assistants and salaried GPs;
** includes CMO, Portfolio, clinical assistant, retired, not working, CMP and medical director.
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43.8
0.3
1.5
0.4
94.8
0.4
3.8
1.0
Total 54.2 45.8 100.0
Foundation year trainee
Senior house officer
Specialist registrar
Consultant
General practitioner*
Staff and associate specialist
Clinical Academic
Other**
Total
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Frequency Per cent
11
109
114
225
407
68
5
20
959
10
1.1
11.4
11.9
23.5
42.4
7.1
0.5
2.1
100.0