While the majority of published studies on financial-incentive programmes examine programmes for doctors [ 22], a number of articles investigate programmes that enrol other health professionals in addition to doctors, such as nurses, pharmacists or dentists [ 7, 11, 26].
We expect that our research will find general acceptance because the investigated programme provides many medical students and even more medical interns (eg, in the elective period known) a great opportunity to deliver prevention programmes not only in inpatient secondary prevention, but also and in particular in primary prevention in schools and communities.
A high proportion of dose investigating programmes (50/68) included trials labelled (in the opinion) as investigating efficacy, activity or immunogenicity in every age group concerned by development.
After generating a total of 960 complaints to Ofcom and 800 to Channel 4, the broadcasting watchdog announced on 25 February that it would investigate the programme, an inquiry described by The Guardian as "Ofcom's most high-profile investigation into a TV programme since it cleared Channel 4 of unfair racial stereotyping in Big Fat Gypsy Weddings".
David Elstein, the former chief executive of Channel 5, said he would have to be "pretty brain dead" not to investigate the programme's subject matter.
It led to nearly 32,000 complaints to the BBC and almost 800 to Ofcom which announced in December it would investigate the programme to see whether it broke rules on taste and decency.
Language outcomes were directly assessed with standardised measures, supplemented by parents' evaluations and measures of children's behaviour to investigate the programme's broader effect.
The research, shared with the BBC's 5 live Investigates programme, found a "culture of complacency" among organisations that claim to be dealing with the issue.
Other private sources have dried up and so obviously they're coming back to us and saying, 'Please help us', and where we can we do," Ann Lucas of the Local Government Association told the BBC's 5 live Investigates programme.
