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Resources
At GKA, we pride ourselves on our ability to support our clients before a recruitment project even begins.
We have distilled some of the learning we’ve acquired over the years into several resources found below which we hope will help support your RFQ, or just build your knowledge in the areas concerned.
Everything you need at your fingertips…
Therapy Area Guides
Our guides are designed to help you get to grips with a therapy area quickly and to provide you with the information you need. From incidence rates and statistics, to drug information and more, our therapy guides are packed with information to help make your project a success.
A Market Researcher’s Guide to the NHS
The NHS is complex, and trying to understand the varying roles and responsibilities within it is a challenging task. To help you overcome that challenge we’ve put together a top-line overview of the NHS commissioning structure which gives you:
- Who’s who in the process
- Who we can recruit for market research
- Information on budget management
A Market Researcher’s Guide to Clinical Commissioning Groups
It can be really tricky to understand the different roles across the NHS, so we’ve put together a helpful guide to give some explanation about CCGs, who you should be talking to, and how we can help you reach them.
5 tips for writing successful screeners for patient recruitment
Screening questions are a critical aspect of the recruitment process, with particular considerations being essential to getting it right with patients. Our guide will help you create a successful screener for your patient studies, giving you tips on:
- Language and tone of voice
- Pilot testing
- Screener structure
A Market Researcher’s Cheat Sheet: A World of Jargon
We know just how overwhelming healthcare jargon can be and it can often be easy to get your CCG’s confused with your CDF’s! To help clear things up, we’ve created a healthcare jargon buster that includes:
- An explanation of NHS terminology and acronyms
- Clarification of therapy area specific terms
- Simplification of market research terms
7 steps to success: conducting medical focus groups with patients
Recruiting patients for focus groups can often be challenging but they are a great way to generate insightful qualitative results for your medical market research. We’ve put together a guide which provides tips on how to achieve success when conducting patient focus groups…
A Beginner’s Guide to Choosing Your Sample Size
Do you need help considering the feasibility of your sample size? We’ve put together a guide to ensure that you head into the research phase of your project with confidence.
A Guide To Patient Fieldwork
Applying the learning of nearly 30 years’ experience in patient market research, we’ve created a guide to successful patient fieldwork which we hope will share some of that knowledge with you.
The GKA Way
Since 1992 we have been providing expert fieldwork services to the medical market research industry and have worked with over 250 clients globally to ensure their projects’ success. We’ve created a document, the GKA Way, to demonstrate why we can be trusted as your fieldwork partner.
A beginner’s guide to the UK healthcare landscape
The healthcare landscape is a complex area which includes many layers of structures and stakeholders. We’ve created a webinar which takes things back to basics and focuses on key areas within the healthcare landscape.
Online interviewing with a difference…
We recruit IDIs and focus groups to be conducted securely via webcam. This facilitates virtual CL days, and ad-hoc interviews, without the travel and catering expenses associated with traditional face-to-face settings.
