If your goal is to develop an engaged and informed public, you need to have a diverse portfolio of outreach methods that includes face to face meetings, surveys, field trips, and web-based information.
This support can be offered in different ways including face to face, telephone and email.
This included face to face contacts with GPs, home visits, prescribed medication and referrals to secondary specialist's care.
Data was collected during October 2012 through desk based review and field research, including face to face interviews.
This measure includes face to face contact as well as the time spent on patients besides consultations.
A variety of formats were used to administer questionnaires including face to face interview, telephone interview, self administration and computer programmes.
It has been translated to 29 languages and can be completed using a range of media including face to face, paper and pencil, and internet or mobile versions.
The diaries enabled us to quantify how much time was spent on each component activity including face to face work with patients and also underpinning administrative work.
We used a modified process including face to face meetings because the project was complex and there were a large number of items to be scored.
The total number of contacts with general practice includes face to face consultations with the GP, home visits, telephone contacts for prescriptions, vaccinations, email contacts, and administrative activities.
