Conditions for use of GPAQ for commercial organisations

GPAQ is copyright of the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre at Manchester University and Dana Gelb Safran of the New England Medical Center Hospitals. You may not print or sell copies of GPAQ without a licence from us.

We have issued a number of licences, and do not intend to issue any more during the current year. This is an agreement with our current licensees. We will not increase the number of licensees unless the current licensees are unable to provide a satisfactory service.

There are no restrictions on third parties who simply analyse GPAQ data collected by others in order to provide reports. If you want to do this, you do not need to contact us.

There are currently no restrictions on providing a GPAQ service via electronic means (e.g. internet, PC based). However, we are currently considering our position on electronic means of disseminationg GPAQ, and if you are considering providing this service, you should contact us.

We have chosen to link licensing to printing and selling hard copies of GPAQ for simplicity of administration. The charge is to enable NPCRDC to continue to provide a support service for GPAQ; we receive no other funding for this.

A number of companies have been very persistent in their approaches, asking us to include them in our list of suppliers. You should not necessarily expect replies to such communications. A few others have chosen to market a GPAQ service in breach of copyright. These companies will be contacted by the intellectual property department of the University of Manchester.