Healthcare

Seven in ten (71%) Britons think abortion should be legal in all or most cases – but this reduces to less than half (46%) of men aged 16-34.

Our evolutionary tale began 6 million years ago, when humans were programmed to hoard calories in a world of scarcity. Today, that ancient wiring has become our greatest health risk.

The British public is comfortable rather than uncomfortable with a range of uses of AI in healthcare, particularly reminding patients to book follow-up appointments (61%), helping to identify potential health risks or early signs of disease via wearable devices (48%) and helping to identify those at increased risk of chronic illnesses (48%).

Less than 10% correctly identified that prostate cancer typically has no symptoms in the early stages.

The programme and its evaluation set out to test whether the promising results displayed in earlier pilots and trials were replicated at a larger scale and in real world, busy NHS settings.

Over half of the public (54%) are either unsure if there’s anything they can individually do to prevent antibiotics becoming less effective at treating infections (28%) or incorrectly believe there’s nothing they can personally do (26%).

Nearly three-quarters (73%) of the public support extending the indoor smoking ban to specific outside spaces to protect children and vulnerable people, including playgrounds, outside schools and hospitals. This is followed by introducing a tax on organisation that produce foods high in sugar or salt, with some of the revenue used to fund fresh fruit and vegetables for low income families (62% support) and reducing the number of retailers with licenses to sell tobacco to limit tobacco availability (61% support).

Environmental sustainability is increasingly important in the healthcare sector, but what does that mean for how pharmaceutical and MedTech companies operate?

Six in ten (60%) young people say they spend more time looking at social media and screens since before the pandemic started