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Table 1 Response rates for NHS Staff and Patient Surveys

From: Openness in the NHS: a secondary longitudinal analysis of national staff and patient surveys

Survey

Year

Number of questionnaires sent out*

Number of questionnaires returned

Response rate

Number of Trusts

NHS National Staff Survey

2007

291,843

157,667

54%

392

2008

289,919

159,691

55%

360

2009

289,277

157,450

54%

387

2010

311,098

167,736

54%

390

2011

250,000

134,967

54%

365

2012

203,188

101,169

50%

259

2013

416,313

203,028

49%

264

2014

603,937

255,150

42%

289

2015

722,811

298,817

41%

296

2016

948,640

414,330

44%

316

2017

1,067,266

478,872

45%

309

NHS Acute Inpatient Survey

2004

142,432

88,308

62%

169

2005

136,937

80,793

59%

164

2006

136,769

80,694

59%

166

2007

135,623

75,949

56%

165

2008

134,415

72,584

54%

165

2009

133,362

69,348

52%

161

2010

132,696

66,348

50%

161

2011

133,704

70,863

53%

161

2012

126,480

64,505

51%

156

2013

127,435

62,443

49%

156

2014

125,709

59,083

47%

154

2015

176,843

83,116

47%

149

2016

176,932

77,850

44%

149

NHS Community Mental Health Service User Survey

2007

41,842

15,900

38%

69

2008

41,014

14,355

35%

68

2009

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

2010

53,746

17,199

32%

66

2011

52,852

17,441

33%

65

2012

49,619

15,878

32%

61

2013

46,552

13,655

29%

57

2014

46,552

13,500

29%

57

2015

41,650

11,695

29%

52

2016

49,300

13,254

28%

58

2017

47,600

12,139

26%

58