CaSE thanks the many organisations and individuals who participated in workshops to shape the topics explored in the quantitative and qualitative research.
We also thank Phil Downing at Icaro for leading the study, along with the teams at Deltapoll and Brook Lyndhurst, and moderators of the focus group sessions. Finally, we want to recognise the contributions of the survey respondents and focus group participants who we engaged through this process.
This work was funded by a grant from Wellcome (318810/Z/24/Z).
Explore the full results, methodology, and download the data on our interactive pages.
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