Limit research to areas with a practical outcome for general practitioners. Involvement in research can count towards reaccreditation points. To be eligible for reaccreditation points you must be involved in all the stages of research - planning, data collection and analysis. Data collection alone does not qualify. Qualitative research identifies issues and explores values and attitudes.
Qualitative research is based on an in-depth exploration of a topic.
Successful projects can be based in one or two practices. Qualitative research does not require a randomly selected sample of participants. Qualitative research can be useful in policy development. For example - Longitudinal studies of patient management of chronic disease. Research which describes what happens in a given situation or to a given group of patients.