Statement | Frequently | Occasionally | Rarely | Never | No response |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Resident gastroenterologists are fully booked long-term due to the many gastroduodenoscopy and colonoscopy tests they are required to perform. | 69% | 21% | 6% | 3% | 1% |
District specialists do not have the time to discuss mostly complex patient problems with you. | 41% | 39% | 10% | 8% | 2% |
There are too few nearby specialist internal medicine practices to diagnose liver counts the way I would like. | 37% | 36% | 11% | 15% | 1% |
Specialists do not brief patients enough, who then go back to general practitioners out of uncertainty. | 30% | 42% | 13% | 13% | 2% |
Gastroenterological district specialists are difficult for patients to reach. | 35% | 34% | 16% | 14% | 1% |
Specialists do not issue direct referrals to a liver centre on suspicion of cirrhosis, so patients come back to their general practitioners for the time being (going around in circles with time wasted). | 23% | 40% | 20% | 16% | 1% |
District specialists are booked out for too long, so I refer my patients straight to a specialist clinic. | 21% | 35% | 19% | 23% | 2% |
I have to wait for a long time for district specialists to pass on their findings. | 19% | 33% | 20% | 27% | 1% |
District specialists do not inform general practitioners enough about the tests they have conducted or the results and/or diagnoses they have made. | 17% | 35% | 24% | 23% | 1% |