Survey respondents by profession and specialty
| Doctors (n=188) | Dentists (n=55) | |||
| n | % | n | % | |
| Specialty | ||||
| Acute internal medicine | 1 | 0.5 | ||
| Anaesthetics | 7 | 3.7 | ||
| Cardiology | 1 | 0.5 | ||
| Chemical pathology | 1 | 0.5 | ||
| Clinical radiology | 2 | 1.0 | ||
| Community sexual and reproductive health | 12 | 6.4 | ||
| Dermatology | 2 | 1.1 | ||
| Emergency medicine | 5 | 2.7 | ||
| Foundation training | 24 | 12.8 | 27 | 49.1 |
| General medicine | 5 | 2.7 | ||
| General practice | 6 | 3.2 | 1 | 1.8 |
| General psychiatry | 2 | 1.1 | ||
| General surgery | 6 | 3.2 | ||
| Geriatric medicine | 4 | 2.1 | ||
| Haematology | 1 | 0.5 | ||
| Oral histopathology | 1 | 1.8 | ||
| Intensive care medicine | 1 | 0.5 | ||
| Infectious diseases | 2 | 1.1 | ||
| Neurosurgery | 1 | 0.5 | ||
| Obstetrics and gynaecology | 20 | 10.6 | ||
| Occupational medicine | 2 | 1.1 | ||
| Ophthalmology | 2 | 1.1 | ||
| Oral and maxillofacial surgery* | 1 | 0.5 | 3 | 5.5 |
| Oral medicine | 8 | 14.5 | ||
| Oral surgery | 5 | 9.1 | ||
| Orthodontics | 2 | 3.6 | ||
| Paediatric and perinatal pathology | 1 | 0.5 | ||
| Paediatric dentistry | 4 | 7.3 | ||
| Paediatric medicine | 9 | 4.8 | ||
| Palliative medicine | 2 | 1.1 | ||
| Periodontology as a monospecialty | 1 | 1.8 | ||
| Plastic surgery | 1 | 0.5 | ||
| Public health medicine | 57 | 30.3 | ||
| Renal medicine | 3 | 1.6 | ||
| Respiratory medicine | 2 | 1.1 | ||
| Restorative dentistry | 2 | 3.6 | ||
| Special care dentistry | 1 | 1.8 | ||
| Urology | 1 | 0.5 | ||
| Vascular surgery | 1 | 0.5 | ||
| Unknown | 3 | 1.6 | ||
*Oral and maxillofacial surgery is recognised as a specialty by the General Medical Council and as such their specialty trainees are registrants of the General Medical Council. In addition to specialty training, the specialty facilitates dental core training and therefore the majority of their junior staff are dentists.