NHS trusts in England have been told to ensure that criminal record checks are up to date on their staff and, where necessary, on volunteers, after a survey of trusts revealed many did not undertake three-yearly reviews.
The surveys of trust management in MANET [15 17] give a summary of various techniques for trust calculations.
When Pew first conducted its survey of governmental trust in 1958 the trust level was above 70% and reached an all-time high of 77% in 1964.
Research on social capital routinely relies on survey measures of trust which can be collected in large and heterogeneous samples at low cost.
If The Australian had published the full results of the Newspoll survey on trust in the media it would have shown that trust in commercial newspapers is less than 50 percent but who needs to know that!
The findings in the report are drawn from a wealth of published data alongside the largest ever survey of NHS trust chairs and chief executives, carried out just a few weeks ago.
According to the results of its own survey of NHS trusts, 78% of all vacancies that were unfilled after three months were in adult nursing (pdf) and 63% of trusts have been forced to look outside the UK to fill vacant posts.
And in a survey of the trusts that weren't inspected, just as many said they were prompted to review or enhance their processes because of our work in this area.
A survey of health trusts two years ago revealed that only 17% of them were providing a dedicated service for personality-disordered patients, and there is only one secure residential unit in the whole of the NHS - Arnold Lodge in Leicester - which provides forensic beds reserved for them.
