A random sample of 500 general practices was drawn from the NIVEL National Registration of General Practitioners.
Practices were drawn from 10 of the 14 NHS Board areas across Scotland, were of a range of sizes (list size from around 4,000 to around 19,000), and served a range of affluent/deprived and urban/rural areas.
The practices were drawn from across London, they were largely in mixed areas with a social class distribution approximating to or just below the national average; two practices could be described as inner city, and one practice was located in a more affluent area.
As such, no firm conclusions regarding the implications for clinical practice were drawn from this analysis.
A stratified random sample of 4.9% (2,702/54,160) of doctors undertaking clinical practice was drawn from a national directory of all doctors in Australia.
"In practice, they are drawn from the same narrow social and professional circles as the executive team and – as we have seen time and time again – the scrutiny they provide is just not good enough.
The practices he recommends are drawn from Buddhism, but commonly taught as secular disciplines, and (unless I missed it) the B-word isn't mentioned once in A Mindful Nation.
In practice, most systemics are drawn from the organic-phosphate group, because with these the problem of residues is somewhat less acute.
It doesn't address a broader governance problem identified by the prime minister: that, in practice, non-executives "are drawn from the same narrow social and professional circles as the executive team and – as we have seen time and time again – the scrutiny they provide is just not good enough".
In practice, however, 90% of PVCs are drawn from the professoriate, and leaks in the academic promotions pipeline mean that only 21% of professors are female.
