General Practice - Practice Team Information (PTI)

Practice Team Information (PTI) Statistics and Analysis

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Practice Team Information (PTI) collects information from a sample of Scottish general practices about face-to-face consultations (in a surgery or the patient's home) between patients and a member of the practice team. The practice team is currently defined for PTI purposes as all GPs including locums and registrars (GPs in training), and practice-employed nurses (referred to on these pages as practice nurses but also including, for example, phlebotomists and health care assistants). Additionally, for the three years between 2003/04 and 2005/06 inclusive, community nurses (district nurses and health visitors) also recorded PTI data. Currently there are around 60 practices participating in PTI in Scotland and these are broadly representative of the Scottish population in terms of age, gender, deprivation and urban/rural mix. More information on the background to PTI, how the information is collected and analysed, and the coding used, can be found in the Background to PTI section.

PTI data are frequently used to estimate the number of consultations for a specific condition, and to estimate the number of patients who consult because of a condition, in any one year in Scotland. PTI estimates of the rate of patients consulting should not be regarded as identical to the population prevalence of a given condition. This is because PTI measures active problems; a lifelong or previous condition will not be recorded unless the patient had a contact with the practice that was directly related to that condition. If, for example, someone with diabetes consults because of a cold and not because of diabetes, their diabetes will not be coded as a reason for consultation.

Overall summary statistics
Condition-specific estimates from PTI
Other conditions - information from PTI and other sources
Most common conditions seen in General Practice
Most common activities carried out by practice nurses
Information from PTI in relation to the QOF
Background to PTI

Summary statistics

Summary of main findings for 2008/09
Overall patient contacts - total and by staff discipline (Scotland)
Overall patient contacts - total and by staff discipline (by practice)
Overall Contact rates by age & gender
Percentage of practice patients seen, by staff discipline
Impact of inclusion of more staff disciplines on patient counts

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Specific Conditions

Estimated number of consultations & number of patients consulting

Angina	CHD	Diabetes	Hypothyroidism
Anxiety	COPD	Eating Disorders	Multiple Sclerosis
Asthma	Dementia	Epilepsy	Osteoarthritis
Back Pain	Depression	Hypertension	Stroke and TIAs