title: Survey of patients' satisfaction with access to general practitioners.
abstract: The north west England faculty patients' liaison group, supported by community health councils and family practitioner committees, surveyed patients' perceptions of accessibility to general practitioners in seven districts in 1985 and 1986. Findings on appointment systems, telephone access and out-of-hours calls are compared with those from other surveys. The results show that patients' satisfaction with appointment systems is related to the efficiency of their own general practitioner's system. The results also show higher levels of dissatisfaction with waiting times for outof- hours visits than in studies 10 years ago and that a large proportion of patients would like direct telephone access to their general practitioner.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Allen
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Leavey
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Marks
mesh_terms: D003258:Consumer Behavior / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003625:Data Collection; D004739:England; D005194:Family Practice; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans