What more in the name of love?
Issy Clegg examines healing with pride: What LGBTQ+ activism gave to healthcare – and what’s still missing Despite a history of oppression members of the LGBTQ+ community have played a crucial role in revolutionising healthcare expanding its scope of inclusivity for all patients. The LGBTQ+ community has helped to push healthcare into the 21st century, […]
SEEN & HEARD
This year, World Vitiligo Day 2025 will be celebrating its 15th anniversary at an AI-focused summit in Toronto, Canada. The theme is ‘Innovation for Every Skin’ where it will look at leveraging artificial intelligence to transform vitiligo diagnosis, treatment and patient care. Vitiligo is a condition that is more than skin deep. The more common […]
Will abolishing NHS England lead to better care?
While removing NHS England will eliminate some bureaucratic overhead, it won’t solve the system’s deeper issues. Without substantial investment, meaningful workforce support, and a coherent social care strategy, the core challenges facing the NHS will remain. Structural change alone isn’t a silver bullet – what’s urgently needed is stable leadership, integrated approaches, sustainable funding, and […]
Welcoming our new senior research manager Julia Heck
LDA Research has recently welcomed Julia Heck to our team as Senior Research Manager. Market research holds a special place in Julia’s heart as she met her fiancé at her first job. Julia is from Munich, Germany and has lived in the UK for more than a decade. She is fluent in German and English. […]
POSITIVELY RARE
Erin Paterson shares her experience of being gene positive for the rare Huntington disease, and how she is on a mission to positively impact other people’s lives by writing and speaking about genetic disease, depression and infertility in support of Huntington’s disease awareness day When I rolled out of bed that Saturday morning my entire […]
UNTIL RARE IS NOT A BARRIER
Our Research Consultant Andrew Grant advocates for awareness of the physical and mental issues patients face while their condition remains undiagnosed Getting a diagnosis when we feel unwell is something that most of us take for granted. We suffer some symptoms, go to the doctor, have some tests, get a diagnosis, and start treatment. It’s […]
SOLE SURVIVOR
LDA Research is supporting CureLONP1.com Aria’s Miracle research fund and her parent’s conviction that hope lies within the global medical and scientific community Aria’s parents need to raise £4m to develop a gene therapy and an ASO therapy for Aria. They are keen to connect with other families with any kind of LONP1 mutations, even when both […]
Patient Recruitment: Fraud Prevention
Senior research manager, Rachel Barnes, discusses the methods LDA Research takes to prevent fraudulent respondents when recruiting for patient research providing a genuine and high calibre sample group for our clients In recent years medical market research has shifted towards a more patient centric focus. For patients and their caregivers, this is a welcome development […]
Staff Specialist in ‘hard to reach’ recruitment
This month we profile Viviana Horwood, one of our research managers, who has worked with LDA Research for six and a half years and become one of our specialists in ‘hard to reach’ recruitment. Viv’s parents are Italian and Scottish, and after spending many years in Slough, she now lives in Bedfordshire. Whilst studying for […]
Niche recruitment – hunting for unicorns
Senior research manager Rachel Barnes shares insights into how LDA Research recruits niche respondents and hard to reach patients worldwide for our clients Over the last few years, there has been a noticeable trend in medical market research towards more granular research into more rare conditions. Here at LDA Research we regularly receive requests for […]
One-to-One Interviews and Focus Groups
The quality of medical market research is determined largely by the context in which it is gathered. The qualitative research team at LDA has been conducting interviews via phone, web, and in person for a good while now, and we all agree that the medium of communication plays in important role in the type, and […]
Medical Device Market Research
LDA Research was set up in 2011, in Bedfordshire, and for the past 7 years the core team has been pursuing their passion globally. We’re lucky enough to spend our time providing specialist qualitative research for the rapidly growing medical device sector. Every member of the team is committed to providing high quality, bespoke market […]
