ABSTRACT
Doctors with 3,500 or more patients were most likely to agree with the proposition: 'general practitioners should actively promote family planning education for their patients'. Data from both mothers and doctors suggested that lack of time was one of the reasons why general practitioners did not give their patients more help about family planning. Doctors in the large partnerships were less likely than others to agree that general practitioners should actively promote family planning education for their patients, and a relatively small proportion of them thought a domiciliary family planning service a good idea. One of the problems for general practitioners is their lack of training in contraceptive techniques and in sexual problems. The chapter shows the various sources of information about contraceptive techniques that the doctors had found helpful. Medical literature was the most frequent source of helpful information and half the doctors said this was their most helpful source.
