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* 1. Are you aware of any patients that have had laboratory tests done directly by attending a private laboratory or clinic?

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* 2. If so how and for which tests?

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* 3. Are you aware of any of your patients using home testing kits obtained from pharmacies or online?

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* 4. If so for which tests and how did they obtain them?

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* 5. Approximately what percentage of your patients have researched their health issues before attending the clinic?

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* 6. What percentage of patients would you say use the internet to research their health issues?

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* 7. Of the patients that conduct research into their health, are their findings generally accurate?

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* 8. What type of research do your patients conduct?

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* 9. Do you think that the rise in health information available to patients with technologies such as the internet is a good thing? Explain

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* 10. Does the large amount of health information available to patients these days make your job easier or more difficult?

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* 11. Are there circumstances where it would be advantageous for patients to access pathology tests directly or is it always important that they visit the GP first?

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* 12. What is your opinion of direct laboratory testing?

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* 13. Do you think that direct laboratory testing would be advantageous in the case of sexually transmitted disease testing where patients may be too embarrassed to visit their family GP?

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* 14. Do you think that direct laboratory testing would be advantageous in the case of chronic illnesses such as diabetes where regular testing is required?

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* 15. Direct to consumer predictive testing is available to patients in the USA. What is your opinion of this service?

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* 16. What is your opinion of a health screening service being offered directly by a laboratory?

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* 17. What is your opinion of online pharamcies?

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* 18. Boots the chemist in the UK now provide a chlamydia testing service directly to customers. Whats your opinion of this?

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* 19. Boots the chemist in the UK now also sell a paternity testing kit to customers. What is your opinion of this?

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* 20. What services do you think that GP's can offer that direct laboratory testing can't?

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* 21. Is there any other comments you'd like to leave about direct to consumer pathology testing?

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