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KCE Reports 90 Making General Practice Attractive: Encouraging GP attraction and Retention 113
stakeholder survey but it provides a rather low power to detect between-groups
differences. Socio-demographic (sex and age group) as well as power variables had –
with very few exceptions- no contribution at all to scoring or ranking differences. For
gender, this is mainly due to the fact that most non-GP stakeholders are men although
we had a good balance of men and women for GPs (respectively 19 and 12). Language
and stakeholder groups had slightly more influences: the description focuses thus on
these last two variables.
6.7.5.1 Teaching policies
Very few significant associations were found for those most popular policies. GPs
stakeholders were slightly less keen on the policy to improve GP approach in the
curriculum. Dutch-speaking stakeholders were more likely (OR=2.88, p=0.01) to
support such policy than French-speaking stakeholders. There were few differences for
the compulsory clerkship for all medical students: the stakeholders with a medical
degree were less favorable to this option.
6.7.5.2 Financing policies
For the most popular policies related to financing (capitation and target payment), there
were broadly no significant differences between groups. Within-group disagreement
seemed as high as between-disagreement: the model financing policy was indeed
supported by 29% of the sample only. Financing remains a very controversial topic
between and within stakeholder groups, independently of the type of group (GPs or
policy makers or interest groups). However, the GPs were more positive for capitation
than the other stakeholders groups (OR=2.49, p=0.09).
For the other policies, the Dutch-speaking stakeholders were more supportive of wage
payment than the French-speaking stakeholders (OR=3.54, p