Therefore, a prospective study followed by a targeted intervention would be necessary to consider employment status and working condition for recruitment and retention of practice assistants.
Over the recruitment period, changes included procedural changes to reduce clinician workload and time to recruitment, enrolment of more sites and changes to the approach to recruitment and retention of practices.
This paper reports on a systematic review undertaken to establish the available evidence on education models and career pathways with a view to enhancing recruitment and retention of practice nurses in primary care in Australia.
This paper reports on a systematic review that was undertaken to establish the available evidence on education models and career pathways with a view to enhancing recruitment and retention of practice nurses in primary care settings.
Research causes significant disruption to busy practices as well as occupying additional clinical time (consent, assessment, training, data collection procedures etc).. Clinicians are unlikely to participate in a research trial without incentivisation [ 44] and retention of practices in the trial may also be at risk [ 45].
The crucial retention of both practices and patients was supported by the research nurses who attempted to minimise problems by sustaining practice contact both by telephone and practice visits to ensure ongoing needs assessments.
We will utilise the Clinical Research Network CRNN) to aid recruitment and retention of GP practices.
This paper seeks to explore some of the issues related to the recruitment and retention of general practices in such trials using our own experience with a health services trial conducted over the past three years.
It was governed by a voluntary Code of Practice later codified into the Retention of Communications Data (Code of Practice) Order 2003, which was developed in consultation with the Information Commissioner and industry.
While this appeared to have a detrimental effect on our practice recruitment rate (33.9%) it proved a facilitator in the retention of both participating practices (100%) and patients (85%).
