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Q.1
How would you describe yourself?
Patient or carer/relative
Consultant
GP
Doctor in training
SAS/ Other doctor
Medical student
Medical educator/trainer
Employer (including Responsible Officer)
Other health professional
Other
Q.2
Medicine is a tough career; we need doctors trained to be resilient and better capable to deal with adversity. Do you…?
Agree – current selection and undergraduate programmes do not produce students who are adequately prepared for a challenging career
Agree – but most of the problems lie in the organisations in which or with which doctors have to work
Disagree – doctors are already resilient – the focus should instead be on providing proper levels of support for hard pressed practitioners
Disagree – resilience comes largely from experience
Not sure
Other:
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Q.3
If I were to raise a serious concern in my institution I would be…
Reasonably confident that I would be supported by clinical and other leaders
Unsure as to whether I would be supported by clinical and other leaders
Not at all confident that I would be supported by clinical and other leaders
Not sure
Other:
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Q.4
If I were struggling to cope as a result of pressures on the service, I am confident that I could ask for and receive help without being penalised in any way.
Strongly agree
Agree
Neither agree nor disagree
Disagree
Strongly disagree
Other:
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Q.5
A supportive working environment is:
How I would describe my current place of work
A pipe dream because of the current pressures we face
Talked about often but rarely achieved
Achievable but only when made a priority by medical leaders and employers
Other:
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Q.6
In the future all doctors will be required to publish their team and individual results in some form or another. Do you…?
Agree, this is a welcome development
Agree, but we need to be wary of perverse consequences
Disagree, we have already taken some measurements of this kind too far
Not sure
Other:
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Q.7
Doctors today are less compassionate than 20 years ago. Do you…?
Agree – it’s the product of too little time, increasing patient demand and expectations
Agree – it’s the product of pressure on organisational performance and management demands
Agree – the way we train doctors removes much of the idealism and compassion that attracted them to medicine in the first place
Disagree – whatever the pressures, compassion still motivates the vast majority of doctors
Not sure
Other:
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Q.8
Don Berwick said the NHS should continually and forever be reducing patient harm by embracing wholeheartedly an ethic of learning. How far is the health system achieving that?
Huge progress has been made, though obviously more to do
Some progress has been made, a great deal more to do
No more than rhetoric, system does not yet realise the extent of change required
I don’t agree that’s the way to go about it
Not sure
Other:
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