Variation by employment status in the association between use of out-of-hours primary care services and ability to see preferred GP or convenience of opening hours (from interaction analysis—see ‘Methods’, the variation is only shown for those variables where statistically significant interactions were found)
| Full-time employment | Part-time employment | Full-time education | Not in work or education† | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Able to take time off work | Unable to take time off work | Able to take time off work | Unable to take time off work | |||
| Ability to see preferred GP* | ||||||
| Always | Ref | Ref | Ref | Ref | Ref | Ref |
| A lot of the time | 1.23 (1.11 to 1.36) | 1.30 (1.11 to 1.53) | 1.22 (1.06 to 1.40) | 0.90 (0.72 to 1.13) | 0.97 (0.70 to 1.36) | 1.26 (1.20 to 1.33) |
| Some of the time (old models) | 1.30 (1.18 to 1.44) | 1.44 (1.24 to 1.67) | 1.15 (1.00 to 1.33) | 1.13 (0.92 to 1.40) | 0.92 (0.67 to 1.26) | 1.27 (1.20 to 1.35) |
| Never or almost never | 1.21 (1.01 to 1.46) | 1.37 (1.11 to 1.70) | 1.01 (0.74 to 1.38) | 1.01 (0.72 to 1.42) | 1.82 (1.15 to 2.89) | 1.31 (1.15 to 1.49) |
| Convenience of opening hours** | ||||||
| Convenient | Ref | Ref | Ref | Ref | Ref | Ref |
| Not convenient | 1.17 (1.07 to 1.29) | 1.23 (1.09 to 1.38) | 1.43 (1.21 to 1.69) | 1.51 (1.25 to 1.81) | 1.37 (1.03 to 1.83) | 1.76 (1.62 to 1.90) |
*p=0.03.
†Includes unemployed, permanently sick or disabled, fully retired from work, looking after the home, doing something else.
**p<0.001.
GP, general practitioner.