Healthcare

Survey of GB adults examining attitudes towards anaesthesia.

Prescription charges are preventing many poorer people with chronic health problems getting the treatment they need, a new report from the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux (NACAB) says today.

People in the workplace are being urged to support those working while living with cancer following the results of a new survey commissioned by leading cancer care charity Macmillan Cancer Relief.

Survey of 2000 GB adults, exploring knowledge of healthy eating and dieting.

Survey of 2000 GB adults, exploring knowledge of healthy eating and dieting

More than seven out of ten members of the public say their GP is overworked, according to a MORI poll.

NHS standards for people with bowel cancer in the UK are considerably behind the treatment patients receive elsewhere in Europe, according to a new MORI survey of specialists released by the Cancer Research Campaign today.

An alarming finding of a MORI poll published today is that six out of every ten men can't correctly identify the possible early warning signs of prostate cancer, or have some degree of misunderstanding about them. Fifty nine per cent of men lack this knowledge, which equates to approximately 12.3 million men in Great Britain. The poll was commissioned by The Prostate Cancer Charity for Prostate Cancer Awareness Week (24 March - 1 April 2001).

A major new MORI survey of the Government's People's Panel has found broad support for the benefits offered by human genetic research, but some misgivings about the regulation of such developments in the future.