We identified 180 south Asian geriatricians as potential interviewees and completed sixty interviews with South Asian trained geriatricians and conducted interviews with two of the original Jefferys group and one UK trained South Asian born geriatrician (these three are not included in the analysis below).
The initial pool of potential informants consisted of:
- 28 south Asian geriatricians responded to an invitation letter sent by the BGS in 2003. Of this group ten were interviewed.
- One person responded to an advert in the BGS newsletter and was interviewed. A mailshot to BGS retired members yielded a further six interviewees.
- One informant was recruited after seeing correspondence relating to him in the National Archives;
- One was the only south Asian Jefferys informant.
- 33 potential informants were identified from contacts generated in previous research or voluntary work by the team and colleagues of whom ten were interviewed.
- 110 potential informants were identified by snowballing from the above sources and of these 25 were interviewed.
- Purposive searches of internet sources such as hospital websites and doctors directories for particular categories of geriatricians (women and SAS) which yielded 18 potential informants of whom six were interviewed.
