Participant characteristics (n=16)
| Sex | |
| Male | 13 |
| Female | 3 |
| Age (years) | |
| 30–39 | 4 |
| 40–49 | 2 |
| 50–59 | 8 |
| 60+ | 2 |
| Clinical experience (years) | |
| < 20 | 6 |
| > 20 | 10 |
| Postgraduate qualifications | |
| General practice only | 4 |
| Rural Hospital Medicine only | 4 |
| Dual qualified (general practice and rural hospital medicine) | 6 |
| Other medical specialty | 1 |
| No specialist postgraduate qualification | 1 |
| Ethnicity | |
| New Zealand European | 6 |
| European (British and Irish) | 7 |
| Other European | 2 |
| Asian | 1 |
The analysis identified three themes which are summarised in table 3 along with their associated subthemes and categories.