Volunteers needed for new research project on behavioural insights

Volunteers are wanted for a new behavioural insights research project to improve cancer detection and reduce emergency diagnoses in the region. 

From late February 2023 to 10 March 2023, the Behavioural Insights Team are asking for volunteers to take part in an interview or survey related to their cancer diagnosis received in the East of England. This work has been commissioned by the NHS East of England Cancer Alliances and is a new behavioural insights project to improve cancer detection and reduce emergency diagnoses in the region. 

We are looking for people living in the East of England who were diagnosed with cancer at a hospital in the region after they attended A&E, and were diagnosed any time between January 2021 and now. Participants must be aged 18 years or above.

We are conducting this research to understand what opportunities there might be to improve the way that cancer is diagnosed within the East of England, particularly for those who have been diagnosed after attending A&E.

What will the research involve? Volunteers can take part in several different ways: either by a 45-minute online or phone interview or an online survey.

We will ask you some questions about your current situation and your cancer diagnosis journey, and ask you to reflect on whether there may have been opportunities for an earlier diagnosis. We understand that reflecting on some of these questions may be difficult, so if there are any questions that you don’t want to answer, you don’t need to answer them.

We would like people to sign up as soon as possible. The study is open until Friday 10 March 2023.

Any interviews will be conducted by an interviewer at the Behavioural Insights Team, a research organisation who have been asked by the East of England Cancer Alliances to conduct this research.

For anyone interested in taking part, please go to tinyurl.com/EOE-Research or scan the QR code (in the attached file) and register your interest by 10 March 2023.

If you have any questions or would like more information about this research, please contact Craig Johnson at craig.johnson@bi.team.

Background information

• Your contact details will only be used to contact you about this research. They will not be used for any other purpose. 

• The information you provide during this research will be stored securely and will only be accessible by the immediate research team at the Behavioural Insights Team for the purposes of this research.

• Your data will securely deleted once it is no longer needed. This is expected to be around November 2023. 

• The findings from any interviews and/or survey will be summarised and shared with the East of England Cancer Alliances as a report. The report will not contain any personal information about anyone participating in this research, and any quotes we include will be anonymised so that you cannot be identified from them.  

• If you want to find out about your rights, or who to contact if you have questions or complaints about the way your data is being used, please see NHS England's Privacy Notice webpages and the NHSE Privacy Notice in a PDF or an accessible format.

• Hospitals in the East of England are listed here at this link.