Why do only 202 out of more than 5 423 Scottish GPs , 3.7% (!) ‘fear patients are at risk?’ Is it because Scotland has far more GPs per patient?

Sometimes I can’t believe they’d do it then they do.

The Herald today has the above and:

How many GPs are there in Scotland? 5 423.

So, this survey has the responses of 285 or 5%. 5%!

Was the sample constructed scientifically to be representative, as the pollsters do?

No, is was self-selecting, ‘squeaky wheel’. Only those who could be bothered and 95% could not.

71% of the 285 said patient safety being affected. 202 of them, 3.7%.

FFS. A 16 year-old doing a Modern Studies project would make no claims for a survey of such naked weakness.

Is this because:

Scotland has 83 GPs per 100 000 patients and England has barely half as many, 45 per 100 000? Patients must surely be at risk there then.

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