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General Practice Nursing

We are working with the RCN GPN Forum, QICN and NHSE to understand the activity and workloads for Registered Nurses and Nursing Associates in General Practice/Primary Care. We are doing this with Prof Alison Leary at London South Bank University. We would like to know about your work, workload and working conditions. This survey will take around 20 minutes.
Please help us by completing this survey. No individual responses will be shared. Only the analysts will see responses.
This survey is conducted in line with the MRS code of best practice.
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1.Please tell us where you work?
2.How long have you been on the NMC Register?
3.Please can you tell us how long you have worked in General Practice as a registered professional?
4.What is your current role/level of practice? (please tick the closest to your role even if your job title isn't here)
5.Please tell us about the hours you are contracted to work (just you, not your team).
6.Please tell us how much paid overtime you do per week on average
7.Please tell us how much unpaid overtime you do each week. This includes working through breaks
8.If you work unpaid overtime, are you given time off in lieu?
9.Please tell us about your weekly workload. How many appointments per week on average do you do the following? (please enter a number per week)
10.How many appointments do you have on average per day? (all kinds)
11.How often are you obliged to add patients to your fully booked clinics/lists?
12.Please tell us which of the following activities you undertake (please tick all that apply)
13.Is time allocated in your work hours to complete the activities in Question 10 above?
14.If you are a lead nurse/nurse manager, how many hours PER WEEK are you allocated for work such as line management, reports and governance?
15.Appointment allocation - for each of the following please indicate how much time is allocated by practice and how long you think is the correct time:
Allocated time (minutes)
Time you feel is needed (minutes)
I do not do this
Travel health
Diabetes care
Adult immunisations
Asthma
Childhood immunisations
COPD
Wound care/compression therapy
CVD
Unplanned care (extra immediate and necessary patients to see on the day)
Multi-morbidity clinics (4 or more long term conditions)
16.Do you believe your consultation times adequate to provide safe care to your own professional standards?
17.What is your practice list size?
18.If known, what is the demographic breakdown of your practice? Please put the approximate percentage of each group.
19.Do you know the deprivation score of your practice population? If so, please add it below.
20.Please tell us about the complexity of your caseload. What makes your patient caseload or work complex? Please tick all that apply
21.What percentage of your patients would you estimate as complex?
22.Are you able to take breaks/lunch most of the time?
23.How much of your time (in hours per week) is spent doing work you do not need to do that could be done by someone else? This could be very routine admin, data entry, chasing results or any other work.
24.We would like to know more about the work that you do that arises from failures in the system. What work do you do because things were not done or done incorrectly? Are there aspects of work that make your work more difficult i.e. IT not working?
25.Can you roughly estimate how much of your time (in hours per week) is spent doing things that should not be your job or fixing things that have not been done or done incorrectly?
26.What pay band (or equivalent) are you currently on? If your exact salary is not listed please choose the amount closest to it.
27.How many registered nurses are currently in your team by whole time equivalent ? Please include yourself
28.How many Registered Nursing Associates by whole time equivalent are currently in your team?
29.What age are you?
30.Please tell us your sex
31.Please tell us your sexual orientation
32.Which of the following options most closely aligns with your gender?
33.How would you describe your ethnicity?
34.Are there any other issues regarding your work in general practice/primary care that you would like to tell us about?
35.Please leave contact details if you would like a copy of the report. If you leave contact details they will not be linked to any responses you have given