The GP Worklife Survey is back for its 13th edition. If you are a working GP, please check your email inbox over the coming weeks in case you are one of the GPs selected at random to take part, and ask your colleagues to do the same. Please feel free to forward onto your colleagues in your practice.
What is the GP Worklife Survey?
The GP Worklife Survey is a national survey sent to GPs across the UK, asking questions about their working lives. The survey asks about things like job satisfaction, experiences of job pressures, and opinions on recent changes to general practice.
How can I complete the survey?
This edition of the GP Worklife survey will be entirely online. To complete the survey, please email: GP.Survey@manchester.ac.uk
Why does it matter?
It’s common knowledge that general practices in the UK are under a huge amount of pressure right now, with demands continuing to rise. This survey offers GPs the opportunity to report their on-the-ground experiences and make their opinions on general practice heard.
Importantly, the findings are shared with the DHSC team responsible for primary care policy, along with key stakeholders at NHS England, British Medical Association (BMA), and the Doctors’ and Dentists’ Review Body.
Policy makers have consistently told us how much they value the insights into the realities of day-to-day life in general practice that this survey is able to provide.
In addition, the data from this survey will be used to conduct academic research into the determinants of GP pressures and job satisfaction. This allows us to answer important questions about the factors which affect GPs’ lives, and feed these into ongoing policy debates.
However, like all surveys, the credibility of our findings depends upon the number of responses that we get. So please, if you receive an invitation, it will take you no longer than 20 minutes to complete.