NHS Satisfaction Survey; NHS & cancer; Headphones volume; P4 Medicine
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2015
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Diagnosing Cancer - why does the UK still lag behind much of Europe and what is being done about it? The American dream - personalised medicine based on your genes. Plus do headphones damage hearing?
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| 0:42.1 | biologists who believes knowing your genetic makeup is the key to a long and happy life. |
| 0:48.1 | The NHS and cancer. Nice has proposed lowering the threshold for urgent referrals for people |
| 0:53.8 | with the disease, |
| 0:55.0 | but will that help reduce delays in diagnosis that are often cited as the reason why the UK survival rates lag behind much of Europe? |
| 1:03.1 | And here's an all too familiar sound. |
| 1:19.6 | Annoying, yes. annoying yes but potentially harmful behind to introduce a legal limit on headphone volume |
| 1:22.6 | amid concerns that a growing number of young people are unwittingly damaging their hearing. |
| 1:33.1 | But first, the NHS, and results of the latest survey showing satisfaction with the service, |
| 1:38.4 | remains close to an all-time high, despite the pasting it's had in the media recently. |
| 1:42.6 | When I entered general practice in the early 90s, around a third of those surveyed, |
| 1:46.6 | were very or quite satisfied with the service provided by the NHS. |
| 1:53.8 | Today, that proportion has Nileon doubled to just under two thirds, albeit down from a peak in 2010. |
| 1:56.9 | Inside Health, Dr Margaret McCartney is in our Glasgow studio. |
| 1:59.1 | Margaret, where do these results come from? |
| 2:03.3 | The most recent ones that we've heard in the press are from the British Social Attitude Survey, this of 2014. |
| 2:05.9 | And this is an annual event that's been going on since 1983, where around 3,000 people |
| 2:11.1 | in autumn, with addresses selected at random across England, Scotland and Wales, are asked |
| 2:17.0 | if they would do an hour-long interview with a researcher. |
| 2:20.5 | And it's these results that we're getting from 2014, which are being reported now. |
| 2:24.3 | Because you could be forgiven for thinking that these were surveys that were done in hospitals or GP surgeries. |
| 2:29.1 | Actually, on people who've been using the NHS. |
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