Conditions for use of GPAQ for practices

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. The copyright can be found at the bottom of the first page and must be copied on each questionnaire.

GPAQ is free to use for practices who wish to photocopy or print enough questionnaires to run their own survey.

If you simply want to use GPAQ for your own practice, you do not need to contact us. You will find guidance on how to use GPAQ and software to help you with the analysis on this website.

Some practices may also wish to survey their nurses and a version of GPAQ for nurses is now available. However, this does not remove the requirement of the GMS contract to do a survey based on GPs.

If you want to run your own survey for your practice, but would prefer someone else to analyse your data and produce a report, you can still use one of our licenced suppliers. Several of these companies can also provide you with a complete service including printing, mailing and receiving the questionnaires on your behalf. If you are interested in administering GPAQ via electronic means (for example online or using a touchscreen in the surgery), please refer to the versions we recommend.

We recommend that you do not alter GPAQ. Indeed, the incentives in the GMS contract are linked to using GPAQ in the approved form. In other words, no questions can be deleted or modified. A lot of development work has gone into GPAQ and keeping it in its original form will also retain validity and allow comparisons to be made with benchmark data. You may add questions to meet the particular needs of your practice if you wish. However, NPCRDC does not give specific approval to modifications of GPAQ.