Submit Your Own Survey

- Submit your own survey
  
  The Remote and Rural Remedies project offers a unique insight into the provision of medical services and assistance in the Highlands and Islands region of Scotland in the 1800s.
  
  This ‘Submit Your Own Survey’ section is open to all current and former medical practitioners based in the area and is intended to gather information to capture current experiences and provide a modern comparative context for the materials.
  
  Questions are marked as either mandatory or optional and you can provide any information about your current or previous experiences that you choose, although we ask that you refrain from using identifying information relating to patients or other individuals in line with data protection legislation.
  
  We want to ensure you are content with how the information you provide will be kept and used. The key points to note are summarised below:
- The names of contributors will be retained for our records but removed from materials made available to users.
- We will ask for your consent to preserve your survey within the archive and make it available to both archive users and online.
- Terms of access will be subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and any other relevant data protection legislation, dependent on the content of your survey.
- If you would like us to keep in touch with you then please include your contact details below.
- I consent to my anonymised survey being made available to users of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh’s archive following submission.
  I consent to my anonymised survey being made available online for educational purposes.
- Personal Details:
- Contact Details:
- Your role, career history and skills development:
  
  1. How long have you worked in the Highlands and Islands region, in which areas and in what roles?
  
  2. Have you worked in any other geographical areas? If so, could you compare that practice with your experience in the Highlands and Islands?
  
  3. How many people are employed in the same or similar roles as you within your local area? Do you know how many other people there are in other medical professions in the area?
  
  4. Where do you seek information, training and professional support?
  
  5. Are there any skills which you think are particularly beneficial for remote and rural practitioners?
- Patients and medical conditions:
  
  6. What is the size of your patient cohort? Are those numbers increasing, static or decreasing? How many patients do you see each day, on average?
  
  7. Are there any particular medical complaints which are more common in the geographical area in which you work?
  
  8. Without mentioning patient names, can you give an example of a particularly challenging case?
- Local travel and infrastructure:
  
  9. Is travel a required part of your role, whether to see patients, other practitioners or to your usual place of work? If so, how long are the usual and longest journeys that you have to make and which modes of transport do you use?
  
  10. Are there any other features of the local infrastructure which have a particular impact on your work, or on that of remote and rural practitioners more widely?
- Patients and medical conditions:
  
  11. Are there any challenges you have faced which you think are unique to, or more common for, remote and rural medical professionals?
  
  12. Do you think there are particular challenges which your patients face in a remote and rural environment, for example related to receiving or maintaining treatment or staying healthy more generally?
  
  13. Do you have any comments on issues which remote and rural trusts face, e.g. recruitment and retention of staff?
- Additional information:
  
  14. Is there anything you would like to add which has not been covered by the above questions?

Submit your own survey

Personal Details:

Contact Details:

Your role, career history and skills development:

Patients and medical conditions:

Local travel and infrastructure:

Patients and medical conditions:

Additional information: