General practitioners' views on over the counter sales by community pharmacists: Table 1

Abstract

More over the counter medications have been made available recently. We carried out a survey of general practitioners' views on various drugs being dispensed by community pharmacists without a prescription to determine whether these views have changed since 1990.1 Details of 1301 general practices were obtained from eight family health service authorities throughout England. All 250 fundholding practices were included in the study together with a random sample of 250 urban and 350 rural non-fundholding practices to permit comparisons between fundholding (mainly rural) and rural non-fundholding general practices and between urban and rural non-fundholding practices. The larger number of rural non-fundholding practices were included so as to increase the statistical power of the study. In November 1994 a questionnaire was dispatched to one randomly selected doctor from each practice. It sought information on basic characteristics of the practice and the responding general practitioner. The section …