Ipsos in the UK, working in partnership with Groundswell and Dr Stephen Green of Sheffield Hallam University, has completed an evaluation of the Rough Sleeping Drug and Alcohol Treatment Grant (RSDATG).
MORI Social Research Institute and Birmingham and the Black Country Strategic Health Authority have published the results of research among local population and General Practitioners. The survey focuses on issues related to the Government's initiative to introduce more choice in the way patients get treated in the NHS.
MORI Social Research Institute and NHS Connecting for Health have published the results of a baseline study on the National Programme for IT (NPfIT), a large-scale investment into IT infrastructure in the NHS.
The Department of Health today releases the latest MORI research looking at the overall state of the NHS in the eyes of patients and the public, including both MORI's regular tracking of public views of he NHS, and for the first time, the release of our in depth plain English workshops which help improve the way communicators in the NHS get across key health messages to the public by understanding how NHS communications are received and identify practical "jargon-busting" tips for local NHS communications teams.
MORI has recently undertaken a cleanliness audit of Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, interviewing 1,221 patients, visitors, relatives and carers at the Hospital, over a five day period. People were asked how clean or dirty they felt the hospital was overall on that particular day.
Recent MORI research shows that two in five (40%) GPs say they do not have enough information about fertility treatment clinics. The most significant factor influencing a GPs decision to refer patients is local knowledge of the clinic, mentioned by two in three GPs (60%). Surprisingly, only two in five GPs (39%) consider a clinic's success rate when making a referral decision, with even fewer (26%) considering recommendations from their Primary Care Trust (PCT).
A national survey of geriatricians has found that 84% have never been on an epilepsy-related course, despite seeing between one and 20 elderly patients with epilepsy each month. Furthermore, one third (36%) is unaware that NICE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has recently issued guidance for the diagnosis and management of epilepsy.
A new MORI survey for the British Medical Association (BMA) reveals the strength of the UK public's support for local GP surgeries. Three quarters (75%) of the public agree their local GP surgery is more important to them than having access to a variety of health services in walk-in centres in public buildings.
Those at high risk of diabetes know very little about the condition, according to research by the MORI Social Research Institute. The project, for Diabetes UK, shows around one in five people 'at risk' (19%) put themselves in that category.
