Public Health

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.

The 2001 National Customer Satisfaction Survey is the second survey conducted among owners of newly built homes; the first was conducted in 2000.

Nearly 60% of people have experience of mental health problems, either personally or through someone close to them.

SEVEN out of ten people in Britain believe that smokers who develop lung cancer have brought the disease on themselves, according to a MORI poll for The Cancer Research Campaign.

Public dissatisfaction with the NHS is growing, according to a new independent opinion poll. Almost as many people believe the Labour Government is responsible for the current state of the NHS as believe the Conservative Government is.