Health Market Research Insights And Findings
NHS Survey Finds Room For Improvement in Level of Hospital Care Patients Receive
April 2013
The NHS’s annual survey of hospital patients has revealed that while care levels have improved compared to last year, there is still a great deal of room for improvement. Over 64,500 patients who had spent at least one night in hospital took… Read more...
Survey Sees Majority of UK Patients Waiting Two Days for GP Appointment
March 2013
A report titled ‘Primary Care: Access Denied?’ by the Patients Association, based on three surveys which gathered 3,076 responses, has discovered some unsettling facts about health care in Britain. Six in ten survey respondents (60.5%)… Read more...
Online Survey Reveals UK Doctors Giving Patients Placebo Treatments
March 2013
A web-based survey conducted by Oxford University – spanning 783 responses and with 71% of these comprised of doctors who are registered with the General Medical Council – has made some startling discoveries about the prevalence of placebo treatments.… Read more...
Poll Shows UK GPs Lukewarm about Online Patient Record Access
February 2013
An online poll of more than 1,000 GPs nationwide by Doctors.net.uk for eHealth Insider (EHI) has discovered that despite the Government's deadline for all patients to have online access to their healthcare records in two years, only 4% of GPs have a practice… Read more...
Sleep Survey Sees UK Tendency for Poor Night's Rest in February
February 2013
The Great British Sleep Survey by Sleepio.com has revealed that February is one of the worst months to get a good night’s rest. Starting March 2010, the on-going study is the broadest and deepest assessment ever carried out to find out how well… Read more...
Health Survey Shows Average UK Adult Wastes Five Years Fretting
January 2013
A survey by UK healthcare provider Benenden Health has revealed that the average adult Briton spends more than five years of their life worrying. In total, an adult person will lose around two hours per day and 14 hours per week fretting about such issues… Read more...
