Quality improvements of safety-netting guidelines for cancer in UK primary care: insights from a qualitative interview study of GPs

Background Safety netting is a diagnostic strategy that involves monitoring patients with symptoms possibly indicative of serious illness, such as cancer, until they are resolved. Optimising safety-netting practice in primary care has been proposed to improve quality of care and clinical outcomes. Introducing guidelines is a potential means to achieve this. Aim To seek the insight of frontline GPs regarding proposed safety-netting guidelines for...