As a thank you for completing the survey, you’ll be automatically entered into a prize draw with four prizes of £250 available to win. Plus, you can opt to join paid focus groups (£80 thank you payment if invited) to share more detailed feedback.
National Voices, the leading coalition of health and care charities, are running this survey to provide the chance for patients to share their views of using medical devices and products.
If you or someone you care for has experience of using medical devices and products for the following types of care, then please complete this short survey to share your experiences: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/medicaldevicesresearch
- Wound and skin care.
- Gastrointestinal and urological care.
- Respiratory and airway management.
- Lymphoedema, support and therapeutics.
- Sexual, reproductive and pelvic health.
- Diabetes, glucose monitoring and insulin delivery.
- Oral, dental, ear, eye and nasal care.
Whether you use wound care products, stoma appliances, catheters, incontinence appliances, or other medical devices, your feedback is important and helps make healthcare more responsive to patient needs.
By completing this short survey, you’ll help inform how medical professionals choose and prescribe devices, ensuring better outcomes for patients.
Currently, doctors, pharmacists, community nurses or dentists can prescribe from a list of over 60,000 medical devices, but many patients aren’t aware they can have a say in which devices work best for them.
The survey should only take approximately 15 minutes to complete, and you have until Friday January 10 to submit your response.
By completing this survey, you can let DHSC know:
- What is important to you as a patient when medical professionals are deciding which medical devices and products to prescribe.
- Information you want in order to make an informed choice about the medical device or product you want to use.
National Voices will analyse the survey responses to explore whether there are any key themes around who is using these medical devices and products, and what their experiences of using these devices and products are.
National Voices will be including these key themes in a report for DHSC which will be published. This report will summarise which features patients find most valuable in the medical devices and products they use.
Your survey response will remain anonymous – no one will be able to tell who said what in this report.
