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Doctors, nurses and other health professionals practice and support shared decision making. But, as our latest reports lays out, there are many obstacles preventing them for working this way with patients on a daily basis. Read more
Last year, we held an advisory board with the pharmaceutical company Pfizer to discuss how patients could be more involved in the fight against superbugs. Highlights from the meeting are now available. They include suggestions on how important patient partnership is when treating patients with serious infections and the need to look at the threat of superbugs from the patient’s point of view. Read more
One in 50 people in the UK lives with a chronic wound but wound care services are not something we talk about very often. This report, we hope, can start a conversation about the current state of wound care services in the UK, and how they can be improved. Read more
We have warned of how the health emergency has disrupted the relationship between patients and the NHS. Our latest survey shows things have worsened for some patients, and we worry for the long-term consequences. Read more
Patients Association reports cover a range of topics across health and social care.
Through listening to patients, their families and the professionals caring for them, we address issues around access to services, patient engagement, quality of care and patient safety.
Our focus is on improving patient experience, and recommendations in our reports help to form the basis of our future campaigns.
Older reports not published on this website are available on request from [email protected], where we still hold them. Please note that the Patients Association's archives up to c.1996 are held by the Wellcome Collection.
Our report finds shared decision making provides benefits to patients and the health service. But patients, and the professionals, face many barriers in making it work in practice. We make several recommendations on how to make shared decision making a reality. Read more
Our second survey of patients' experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more
This report summarises the results of our 2020 hospital food survey, summarising key trends and offering recommendations on how to improve patients experience of food during their hospital stays. Read more
Report exploring how patients felt about visiting their GP during the pandemic, and views on returning in future. Read more
UK patient experience of health, care and other support during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 Read more
The first report of our patient experience programme, Being A Patient, outlines the findings of the research and scoping stage. Read more
An investigation into how CCGs are implementing government policy and guidance on antimicrobial stewardship, and progress in recent years. Read more
Our report on patients' views of internal and external aspects of their local GP practice premises Read more