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The Information Centre for Health and Social Care are reviewing their Population Based Health-Related Surveys which cover a diverse range of topics such as smoking, drinking, obesity, mental health and cardio-vascular disease. The following surveys are included:
The aim is to improve the relevance of the data collected. The proposal is to replace the HSE and some questions in the other surveys with a new health and social care survey. We believe that this new survey can make significant improvements, such as:
If you have any comments, please send them by 14 March 2008 via post or email to:
Rob Stones
The Information Centre for Health and Social Care
2nd Floor South,
Trevelyan Square,
Boar Lane,
Leeds
LS1 6AE
Tel: +44 (0)113 254 7068