General Practice - Practice Team Information (PTI)
Practice Team Information (PTI) Statistics and Analysis
Practice Team Information (PTI) is a programme for the collection of primary care data from the general practice team, including General Practitioners (GPs), practice nurses and, until recently, community nurses (specifically district nurses and health visitors). It developed from Continuous Morbidity Recording (CMR), which collected data from contacts between patients and GPs only. PTI collects data from every face-to-face contact between a patient registered with the practice and a member of the practice team, including out-of-hours and house calls, but excluding telephone consultations. Currently there are around 60 PTI practices in Scotland and as many of these as possible are included in the yearly 'national sample'. The practices involved are broadly representative of the Scottish population in terms of age, gender, deprivation and urban/rural mix.
PTI is frequently used to estimate the number of consultations annually in Scotland for a specific condition, and to estimate the number of people in Scotland who consult because of a condition in any one year. It should be borne in mind that 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. PTI estimates of the rate of patients consulting should therefore not be regarded as identical to the population prevalence of a given condition.
From 2006/07 onwards, PTI no longer includes community nursing data. The reasons behind this change are explained within What is PTI? . The 2006/07 figures are based on GP and practice nurse data only, and comparable figures are provided for the previous three financial years. For 2003/04 to 2005/06, estimates based on the 'full' practice team (GP, practice nurse, district nurse, health visitor) are also shown. ISD Scotland is engaged in ongoing efforts to collect data from community nursing professionals via developing a Community Nursing Census .
Earlier revisions include the major change of methodology for all PTI analyses introduced early in 2007, and as a result direct comparisons between figures (for the same time period) produced before and after 27th March 2007 are not valid. All estimates shown on this website were produced using the new methods. See the Note of Revisions for further information.
| Background |
| Glossary |
| Summary statistics |
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| Summary |
| Contacts by staff discipline (Scotland) |
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| Contacts by staff discipline (by practice) |
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| Percentage of practice population seen, by staff discipline |
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| Impact of inclusion of more staff disciplines on patient counts |
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| Contact rates by age and gender: |
| - [chart] GP & Practice Nurse |
- [table] All disciplines (70KB) |
| Most common conditions seen: |
| - [chart] GP & Practice Nurse |
| - [table] All disciplines (232KB) |
| Most common activities: |
| - [chart] Practice Nurse |
| - [table] All nursing disciplines (198KB) |
| PTI related to the Quality and Outcomes Framework |
| QOF conditions as proportion of clinicians' contacts |
| QOF/PTI comparisons |
| Co-morbidities |
| Link to QOF data for Scotland |
- Health Indicators Report 2004
Annemarie Van Heelsum 
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