Group | Primary care participants total (gender) | Secondary care participants total (gender) | Secondary care specialties represented | Notes |
1 | Six (four males, two female) | Six (three male, three female) | Orthopaedics, Psychiatry, Acute Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Haematology, Neurology | All participants attended |
2 | Six (three male, three female) | Four (three male, one female) | Rheumatology, Vascular Surgery, Paediatrics, Psychiatry | Two secondary care clinicians did not attend* |
3 | Six (three male, three female) | Five (three male, two female) | Renal Medicine, Orthopaedics, Cardiology, General Surgery, Dermatology | One secondary care clinician did not attend* |
Each group session lasted approximately 90 min and took place outwith routine working hours (commencing around 19:00 hours).
*Two clinicians had to cancel at short notice and subsequently contacted the research team to explain reasons for non-attendance, and one clinician failed to attend with no reason given.