Unmet need for General Practitioner (GP) services
Ethnic differences
Rate ratios are a useful way of comparing the level of unmet need for GP services within a specific ethnic group with the level in the total population. They show that none of the differences between ethnic groups and the total population with respect to unmet need for a GP reached statistical significance in 2006/07.
Note
We encourage you to be cautious about drawing conclusions from comparisons between ethnic groups. Apparent differences (in unadjusted data) between ethnic groups can often be explained by factors other than ethnicity per se, such as the different age, sex, geographical and socioeconomic distributions of different ethnic populations. In addition, datasets vary in the way that they collect and record ethnicity data.
