The Scientist : What the public really, really wants [10/12/2001]

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by Pat Hagan

RESEARCH ROUND-UP

What the public really, really wants

Email: Pat Hagan - phagan@btinternet.com
News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20011210-03

Published

10 December 2001

LONDON — Traditionally, the medical and scientific community in the UK kept a healthy distance between itself and the general public. Accountability was largely a foreign concept and the opinions and views of patients were mostly discounted. But in recent times there has been a small revolution in the way ordinary people are encouraged to express themselves on everything from the quality of National Health Service (NHS) care to the temperature and flavour of hospital food.

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