General practitioners' knowledge of notifiable, reportable, and prescribed diseases

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The Health and Safety Executive recently investigated general practitioners' awareness of health and safety legislation and its relevance to their practices. A survey was carried out by means of a telephone questionnaire on 24 randomly selected practices in each of the 20 areas covered by the Health and Safety Executive in Great Britain. These were prearranged, when possible, with the senior partner at each of the practices. Interviewers were employment medical or nursing advisers from each of the area offices. Respondents were senior partners at the practices, or, if this was not possible on the day, practice managers. Included in the survey were three questions designed to compare knowledge of notifiable, prescribed, and reportable diseases. The interviewer asked respondents whether they knew what was meant by a notifiable disease. Respondents who answered yes and gave an appropriate definition were then asked to give two examples. The same process was repeated for prescribed and reportable diseases. A total of 466 questionnaires were completed and included in the subsequent analysis. This represents a response rate of 97%. In all, 323 of the survey respondents were general practitioners, approximately 1% of all general practitioners in Great Britain.

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