Research project

Title: The NHS - Health for All ?

Project timescale: From 01 January, 1998 to 01 June, 1998
(Added to website on: 07 August, 2001 - Date last updated: 20 April, 2007)

Source of funding:
MENCAP

Aims: To establish how the NHS caters for people with learning disabilities.

Research designs used:
Study of views/experiences

Methods used to collect data:
Documentary analysis
Focus groups
Interviews
Questionnaire survey

Research project description: Focus groups and accessible questionnaire widely advertised among MENCAP membership.

Stages at which the public were involved:
Analysing the research
Disseminating research
Implementing action
Prioritising topic areas
Planning the research
Designing the research instruments
(eg questionnaires, patient information sheets)

Description of public involvement in research stages: Started and finished with consumers - fed back to consumers in accessible formats.

Training and support provided for either members of the public or researchers involved in the project:

Examples of ways the public have made a difference to the research project: They made it.

Evaluating the impact of public involvement in the research:

Details of publications or reports resulting from the research: Report "The NHS - Health for All ?" published June 1998 by MENCAP. Widely used in MENCAP campaigning - including campaigning documents for local use. Replicated in local studies.

Was/is your project user controlled: Not Known

For further information on the project, please contact:
E.B. McGinnis
Advisor
MENCAP
123 Golden Lane
London
EC1Y CR7
020 7696 5566

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