Attachments

Do not open an attachment unless you trust the source.

■ Do you know the person who is sending you this file? If not, don’t open it. E-mail addresses can be “spoofed” – the “from” address can be faked.

■ Once the message is open does the content match the sender? If not, send it back and ask for clarification. 

■ Does it make sense that they are sending it to you? If not, send it back and ask for clarification.

■ Microsoft NEVER sends operating system patches as e-mail attachments. They will ask you to visit the Microsoft Web site to download any software. 
    
Sending Personal Information

E-mail is not secure. Think of it as sending a postcard written in pencil. As the card is delivered it makes numerous stops and can be altered or read by various people. Personal information should never be sent via e-mail – ssn, credit card, name, phone, address, and date of birth in combination. Don’t send anything you wouldn’t want on a billboard.

Phishing 

“Phishing is a scam where the perpetrator sends out legitimate-looking e-mails appearing to come from some of the Web's biggest sites, including eBay, PayPal, MSN, Yahoo, BestBuy, and America Online, in an effort to phish (pronounced "fish") for personal and financial information from the recipient.”

Examples would be a message from your bank that asks you to update your account information. You click on the link, the legitimate bank site opens, then a page opens up on top asking you for your account info. This info page DOES NOT belong to the legitimate site. If you fill out your personal information and submit it, the info will go to the “phisher” to be sold or used to steal your identity.

In a recent poll, just 1% of respondents stated that spending the estimated 32 billion on HS2 Rail was one of their top three preferred areas for spending of tax payers money.

In a recent poll undertaken by Direct Data Analysis, 101 respondents were asked to select their top 3 areas where they would prefer the Government to spent the 32 billion pounds, which is the estimated cost of the new HS2 rail line. 

In the poll, 73% of respondents stated spending the money on the NHS as one of their 3 preferred areas, followed by Care of the Elderly (54%) and Schools (40%).  Just 1% of respondents stated that spending the money on HS2 was one of their 3 preferred areas for spending of the money. 

According to recent NHS data looking at smoking quit rates for various social economic groups, full time students are the least successful when it comes to quitting smoking in England.

Data collected for the NHS shows that 34.8% of full time students successfully quit smoking at a 4 week follow up period after setting their quit date.  This compares to the national average of 47.9% who successfully quit smoking.  

The most successful groups when it came to quitting smoking were the retired and those in managerial or professional positions, where 56.2% had successfully quit smoking at a 4 week follow up from setting their quit date.   

The quit smoking success rate for the various social economic groups are as follows:

• Full time students 34.8%
  
• Never worked or unemployed for over 1 year 37.8%
• Sick/disabled and unable to return to work 41.7%
• Unable to code 43.8%
• Home carers (unpaid) 43.9%
• Routine and manual occupations 51.0%
• Intermediate occupations 53.0%
• Prisoners 54.3%
• Managerial and professional occupations 56.2%
• Retired 56.2%

Data was collected on 552,602 people in England who had set a quit smoking date between April and December 2011.  Of those persons, 264,795 (47.9) had successfully quit smoking at the 4 week follow up period.

Data for the persons setting quit dates and smoking quit rates was collected from Local NHS Trusts by the NHS Information Centre.  
Source: The NHS Information Centre: Statistics on NHS Stop Smoking Services: England, April 2011 to December 2011 (Q3 - Quarterly report)

Whilst every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information supplied herein, Direct Data Analysis Ltd cannot be held responsible for any errors or omissions. Unless otherwise indicated, opinions expressed herein are those of the author of the page and do not necessarily represent the views of the NHS.

Direct Data Analysis 

Employee satisfaction surveys can be used to improve job satisfaction and increase performance.

Below is a very brief overview of employee satisfaction surveys, provided by Direct Data Analysis .

Employee satisfaction surveys can be useful tools to help employers identify employee satisfaction and dissatisfaction.  They can help identify and deal with any potential conflicts, provide useful and actionable information for managers, and help create loyal and motivated employees.

Organisations can undertake their own employee satisfaction surveys, however an external survey provider should be used to provide unbiased and independent reporting of the results. 

The survey should be confidential, collect no data which could personally identify an employee, and employees should be made aware of this.  The survey is less likely to gain a true reflection from employees if an individual thought that answers could be traced back to themselves.

In order to improve response rates, employees should be informed that the results from the survey will be used to improve the workplace.

The survey questionnaire should be developed so as not to provide any leading or vague questions.

A copy of the survey results should be made available for employees to see, and if this is the first employee survey, a follow up survey should be undertaken at a later stage in order to measure any improvements following actions undertaken based on the original survey results.