If you work on a public sector health campaign, the chances are that someone else somewhere is working on the same issue. One Stop Shop offers health professionals a chance to share unpublished research and information on consumer knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviour across a range of public health priorities.

If you work on a public sector health campaign, the chances are that someone else somewhere is working on the same issue. One Stop Shop offers health professionals a chance to share unpublished research and information on consumer knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviour across a range of public health priorities.

Safer Schools Partnership: Understanding the current perception of police involvement in schools and how to make it more positive

The specific research objectives were to provide an understanding of parents’ and young people’s spontaneous reactions and feelings about police presence in schools: • Ascertain what is it they know about police in schools and where/how they get their information • Test a range of messages about SSPs and explored reactions to the messages • Listen out for how parents and children spoke about the topic, including the language and tone they use, helping to understand how to position relevant messages • Explore parents’ and young people’s perceptions of SSPs, once they were given more informat

Maximising the appeal of weight management services: Qualitative research

The primary internal audience for the research is commissioners in Primary Care Trusts with responsibility for commissioning weight management services. The research will assist commissioners in understanding the needs and preferences of potential service users and helping to procure services that will meet those needs.

Young people and Alcohol: Campaign tracking survey 2009-10

The research aimed to evaluate the campaign against its key performance indicators (KPIs) which were agreed before the campaign launch.

'How to be heard' - public engagement with the NHS: Qualitative research

The overarching objective of the research was to explore the content and channels for the planned How to be Heard guide. In more detail the research objectives were to: • Gauge understanding and current awareness of existing information • Establish positioning and messaging: looking at three different levels of content and exploring reactions towards tone of voice • Consider all delivery channels: exploring as many channels as possible.

Social care workers and the swine flu vaccination: Qualitative research

The research was designed to understand: • Awareness and knowledge of Pandemic flu/Swine Flu • Levels of concern about Pandemic flu • Changes in RHH behaviour & other procedures since the start of Swine Flu • How information is currently disseminated and any gaps • Current information sources and their credibility / trustworthiness • Knowledge of and attitudes towards the Swine Flu vaccination • Barriers to take-up of the vaccination • Attitudes to proposed and existing communications.

Child internet safety campaign: Creative research

The detailed objectives of the research were to identify: • The most powerful, memorable and actionable expression of the behavioural code • The most engaging and motivating creative idea and execution across print, online, radio and participative executions • The most relevant and informative messages to ignite behaviour change.

Violence against frontline NHS staff: Qualitative research

The overall aim of this research was to enhance the NHS Security Management Service’s understanding of the ways in which NHS frontline staff experience violence from the public and patients. This is so it is better placed to respond to these challenges with effective and efficient preventive measures. The research captured information about both verbal abuse and verbal threats towards staff, as well as incidents of physical violence.

The specific objectives of this research were to:

Attitudes to Dementia: Qualitative research

The overall research objective was to gather general public feedback to be used to inform and develop a strategy to address the issue of dementia and the stigma and discrimination which surround it.

More specifically, the research addressed the following requirements:

  • Understand the knowledge, attitudes, reactions and feelings towards people with dementia and the disease itself 
  • Determine the reasons for negative attitudes and feelings towards dementia, and people with dementia

Encouraging higher risk drinkers to reduce consumption to safer levels: Campaign report

There were 4 key objectives for this research:

  1. To explore a range of propositions to determine a core proposition territory for the social marketing campaign 
  2. To explore and evaluate creative routes to determine the most effective route (including health harm messages) 
  3. To evaluate the most appropriate channels and brands for the messages 
  4. To evaluate the role of further information and support (including the customer relationship management journey)