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Question Yes, n (%) No, n (%) Would you be willing to share information about abortion to your patients? 119 (93.7) 8 (6.3) Have you shared information about abortion with one of your patients in the last 12 months? 77 (60.6) 50 (39.4) Do you feel that there are necessary services, such as counselling, available to women who might attend your practice looking for information or advice on having an abortion? 38 (29.9) 89 (70.1) Do you feel that there are necessary services, such as counselling, available to women who might attend your practice having had an abortion? 31 (24.4) 96 (75.6) - Table 2. Answers to question 9: ‘What type of training do you have in this area of practice?’ (n = 127)
None, n (%) Some formal training, n (%) Sufficient formal training undertaken to give information to patients and prescribe abortion pills, n (%) 105 (82.7) 18 (14.2) 4 (3.1) - Table 3. Answers to questions 8, 12, 13, and 14 (relating to the provision of abortion services in general practice) (n = 127)
Question and number Yes, n (%) No, n (%) Unsure, n (%) In some circumstances, n (%) 8. Would you be willing to prescribe ‘abortion pills’ to bring about medically induced abortion before 12 weeks gestation 38 (29.9) 47 (37.0) 19 (15.0) 23 (18.1) 12. Do you think that the provision of abortion pills should be part of general practice? 53 (41.7) 52 (40.9) 22 (17.3) N/A 13. Do you think that doctors who do not wish to be part of this programme should be entitled to a CO but they are obliged to refer the woman to a participating doctor? 92 (72.4) 20 (15.7) 15 (11.8) N/A 14. Do you think that doctors who do not wish to be part of this programme should be entitled to a CO whereby they have no obligation or role in arranging or participating in the process? 44 (34.6) 66 (52.0) 17 (13.4) N/A N/A = not applicable. CO = conscientious objection.
- Table 4. Answers to question 10: ‘What type of experience do you have in this area of practice?’ (n = 127)
A: Experience in general practice dealing with abortion issues and crisis pregnancy, n (%) B: Experience or training abroad (including in the UK), n (%) C: Experience working in family planning services or Obs/Gyn, n (%) D: Very little, n (%) E: No experience, n (%) F: Other, n (%) 53 (41.8) 12 (9.4) 7 (5.5) 6 (4.7) 46 (36.2) 3 (2.4) Obs/Gyn = Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
- Table 5. Answers to question 11: ‘What further training, if any, do GPs require? Please explain.’ (n = 120)
A: Practical training, n (%) B: Guidelines, n (%) C: Educational courses, n (%) D: Other, n (%) 66 (55.0) 11 (9.2) 27 (22.5) 16 (13.3)
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