Integrating a pharmacist into the general practice environment: opinions of pharmacist’s, general practitioner’s, health care consumer’s, and practice manager’s

Table 1 The style of interview used, the number of participants, and the participant’s group and demographic information

Group	Style of Interview	Number of participants	Age Range	Female Gender	Previous experience with pharmacist conduct cognitive services (i.e. HMR)
Pharmacists	Focus Group 1	6	23 – 65 years	52 %	68 %
	Focus Group 2	9
	Semi-structured Interviews	10
General Practitioners	Semi-structured Interviews	4	46 – 65 years	25 %	75 %
Health Care Consumers	Focus Group 1	8	76 – 85 years	87 %	17 %
Health Care Consumers	Focus Group 2	10	76 – 85 years	87 %	17 %
Practice Managers	Semi-structured Interviews	4	46 – 55 years	100 %	*
Mixed Group (GPs and Pharmacists)	Focus Group	4 General Practitioners 3 Pharmacists	26 – 55 years	71 %	100 %

*Practice managers indicated that they did not directly participate in these services however GPs and health care consumers from their medical centres had.

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