Table 2. Summary of categorisation and the features of the Candidacy Framework addressed by each subcategory

Main categories	Subcategories	I	N	P	Ap	Ad	Of	OC
Appointment innovations	Triage		2	1
	Telehealth			1	2
	Restructuring appointment systems			1	2
	Offering patient contacts that are not appointments	2	2	1	2
Direct patient access to services that remove need to access general practice	Community pharmacists			1				2
	Self-referral pathways			1
Increasing the number and range of professionals available to see patients within general practice	Expansion and diversification of skill-mix		2	1		2		2
	Improving GP recruitment and retention			2
Offering contacts beyond core hours, core settings, and core services	Extended hours services provided by GPs within their own practice or practice network			1
	GP services external to a patient's practice or local practice network			1
	Enhanced services within practices	2		1
	Expanded or re-organised services within the wider community	2	2	1	2
Supporting patient engagement, empowerment, and education	Educational initiatives targeting patients	1	2	2	2
	Digital resources for patients	1	2
	Practice-level interventions or interventions targeting practice staff and professional behaviour	2	2	2	1	2	2
	System-level interventions targeted at patients		1	2	2			2
Supporting the internal and wider structures of general practice	Making existing processes in practices more efficient							1
	Reducing the burden of bureaucracy in general practices							1
	Interventions to ensure general practices at high risk of closing stay open							1
	Financial mechanisms for improving access							1
	Contracting and commissioning to shape provider markets							1
	Changes to the scale or model of general practice (not otherwise included)							1

Ad = adjudications. Ap = appearances. I = identification of candidacy. N = navigation. P = permeability. OC = operating conditions. Of = offers and resistance. See description of each feature in Table 1. ‘1’ indicates the candidacy feature most addressed by an intervention, ‘2’ indicates secondarily affected features.