Feedback from Public Meeting: 30 October 2001

At the public meeting held in the London attendees were asked to provide feedback to help design future meetings.

Twenty-six members of the public attended the meeting

Of those attending the meeting 15 completed feedback forms amounting to 57.69% The results of this feedback are as follows:

Which sector do you represent?

How did you find out about this meeting?

Your opinion of the venue:

Additional comments on the venue:

• Excellent
  
  
• Ideal central location
  
  
• 1.00pm start, would have been good to have a sandwich!
  
  
• Quite satisfactory
  
  
• Easy to find, nice venue
  
  
• Venue and room were fine and a good template
  
  
• No indication of nearest tube given!
  
  

Your opinion on the pre-meeting demonstrations:

How relevant were the demonstrations?

Additional comments on the demonstrations:

• Limited demonstration given

Your opinion on the meeting:

How relevant were the presentations?

Additional comments on the meeting:

• Personally I am grateful for the opportunity of raising the points of concern.
  
  
• Graph titles confusing eg % growth in number of prescriptions by BNF categories.
  
  
• Could not hear speaker without microphone during question time.
  
  
• Would have liked more on trends in prescribing/growth.

Do you have any suggestions/comments for future meetings, or anything else you would like to add?

• Good venue
  
  
• Perhaps Birmingham next year
  
  
• Lunch would have been good!
  
  
• Explain how we can get involved in pilots etc of ETP plus pilot sites monitoring prescription growth.
  
  
• Questions well answered, presentations full of useful information.
  
  
• Felt that some of presentations (eg ETP) were too superficial; problems glossed over. Endorsing of prescriptions remains a problem when transferring information electronically to the PPA.