Patients

Virtual care has gained increased importance during coronavirus, but will this bring about a permanent shift in remote healthcare?

Jen Bell looks at data from the 2019 GP Patient Survey (GPPS) to see what the survey tells us about the experiences of patients with diabetes.

Ipsos was commissioned by NHS England in February 2018 to understand how maternity services currently collect and use feedback from women to improve services, and to explore the opportunities for the collection of digital feedback in maternity services with the dual purposes of national benchmarking and local service improvement.

In an industry moving towards patient-centricity, patient research is on the rise as pharmaceutical companies strive to develop a greater understanding of their product’s end users. However, this can be complicated if your end users are children.

Adherence is one the biggest challenges facing healthcare today. Sub-optimal adherence results in sub-optimal health outcomes, which burdens a system already buckling under many other pressures.

No matter how you slice it, pharmaceutical companies across the industry are scrambling to be perceived as putting the patient first. But who is making good on this? What more needs to be done?

Did You Know? Brits have confidence in their GPs

Twenty three per cent of the British population have suffered from chronic pain, a new MORI Social Research Institute survey announces today.