Table 3 Characteristics of the study population regarding reasons for moving from UK to France, number of years of residence in France, degree of confidence in the French health care system when moving, actual overview of the French healthcare system according to the degree of confidence in the NHS (n=860)
From: British residents’ views about general practice care in France – a telephone survey
Very confident, somewhat confident | Not very or not at all confident in % | P value | All study population | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
n=626 | n=234 | |||
Reasons for moving from France to UK*: | ||||
- Professional reasons | ||||
- Yes | 13.3 | 10.7 | 0.2266 | 12.6 |
- Family reasons | ||||
- Yes | 16.1 | 13.4 | 0.2301 | 15.4 |
- Retirement | ||||
- Yes | 33.6 | 32.9 | 0.1409 | 33.4 |
Number of years of residence in France: | ||||
- 2 years or less | 5.6 | 5.6 | 5.6 | |
- 2 to 5 years | 24.9 | 26.9 | 25.5 | |
- more than 5 years | 69.5 | 67.5 | 0.8335 | 68.9 |
Mean number of years of residence in France (SD) | 11.2 (10.0) | 10.0 (8.3) | 0.1037 | 10.9 (9.5) |
Actual overall view of the French health care system: | ||||
- works pretty well | 86.8 | 93.2 | 88.7 | |
- fundamental changes are needed to make it work better or need to be completely rebuilt | 13.2 | 6.8 | 0.0356 | 11.3 |