survey

A survey has been launched to ask people in Plymouth for their views on making health and social care services in the city more joined up.

Work is underway in Plymouth, as in the rest of the country, to develop an integrated service across health and social care to enable us to deliver the right care, at the right time, in the right place. It will be in place by April 2015 and will...

Nearly nine out of ten people with cancer treated at Derriford Hospital rate their care as ‘excellent’ or ‘good’.

This is the finding of the latest National Cancer Patient Experience survey, which is run nationally and asks patients with cancer treated at all hospitals across the country about their care. More than 700 patients treated at Derriford Hospital responded to the survey....

As you look forward to heading home for the weekend, here's a survey that may ring true.

For a new study has revealed that in the South West, parents have a staggering 91 battles a week with their children – and win 73 of them.

· The most common battles take place around bedtime when mums and dads desperately try to get their children to go to sleep without a fight.

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Devon and Cornwall Police are looking for new members to join their community focus panel and help inform decisions made by the police.

The panel has been established to help increase consultation with residents on the various subjects affecting the force.

As a panel member you will be contacted via email and invited to take part in online surveys.

The subject areas...

Women using our maternity services have reported much improved care, according to a National Survey looking at the experiences of all women giving birth in units across the country.

Our maternity service has seen an improvement since the survey was last conducted three years ago.

The survey asked patients 48 questions, covering care from booking for pregnancy through to...

Survey reveals skills needs of Devon businesses

Devon businesses are only recruiting low numbers of young people looking for their first job since leaving education, according to research published today by Devon County Council.

The Devon County Council Workforce Skills Survey aims to better understand the issues and challenges facing businesses in Devon in relation to skills,...

In a recent survey of Devon and Cornwall Small Businesses only 13% of the businesses surveyed conduct Marketing Planning and yet 90% said that they see Marketing as important to the success of their business with 56% seeing it as critical to success*.

So what’s the problem? Why is there such a huge gap between those that do and those that don’t?

We believe it’s to do with three...

Rising prices and burgeoning buyer demand have led to significant increases in homes coming onto the South West property market, says the August RICS Residential Market Survey.

During August, 68 percent more chartered surveyors reported increases not decreases in new instructions in the region (from +42 percent in July). This is the highest number since RICS started to record these...

Farmland prices in the South West hit yet another record high during the first half of 2013 and have now more than trebled in less than a decade, according to the latest RICS Rural Land Market Survey H1 2013.

During the first six months of the year, the cost of farmland jumped to £7,250 per acre across the region, hitting a record high for the eighth consecutive period. The cost of...

Over 800 children visit their doctor every day due to the serious effects of secondhand smoke exposure, according to research published by the Royal College of Physicians*. The figures have been highlighted today as the government launches a campaign to increase awareness of the hidden dangers of smoking in homes and cars.

More than 80% of secondhand smoke is invisible and odourless,...