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A significantly higher proportion of nurses than GPs support controversial proposals to improve care such as the naming and shaming of GPs who fail to detect cancer and increasing charges for patients from outside the EU, a survey has found.
This survey carried out by research and publishing company Cogora, found that while around 80% of GPs ‘totally disagreed’ with plans to name and shame GPs who fail to spot cancer, only 25% of nurses felt the same way. Most nurses (50%) only ‘disagreed somewhat,’ while a sizeable 25% of nurses either 'agreed' or 'strongly agreed' compared to just 3% of GPs.
While both the British Medical Association (BMA) and Royal College of Nursing (RCN) believed that the results reflected an element of GPs being naturally instinctive about protecting their sector, being the ones placed in the spotlight, each member body representative attempted to shed insight on their sector's stance.
http://www.nursinginpractice.com/article/nurses-and-gps-divided-support-new-reforms
This survey carried out by research and publishing company Cogora, found that while around 80% of GPs ‘totally disagreed’ with plans to name and shame GPs who fail to spot cancer, only 25% of nurses felt the same way. Most nurses (50%) only ‘disagreed somewhat,’ while a sizeable 25% of nurses either 'agreed' or 'strongly agreed' compared to just 3% of GPs.
While both the British Medical Association (BMA) and Royal College of Nursing (RCN) believed that the results reflected an element of GPs being naturally instinctive about protecting their sector, being the ones placed in the spotlight, each member body representative attempted to shed insight on their sector's stance.
http://www.nursinginpractice.com/article/nurses-and-gps-divided-support-new-reforms