Britain’s housing crisis is usually described through rents, shortages and welfare. Yet another failure sits between those pressures and homelessness: people cannot reliably warn the system before their accommodation...
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Stephen Walters
The NHS: Still Free. But No Longer Actually There At The Point Of Use?
Forced to go private? Not for better treatment, but just to know you can get an answer A poll of 2,593 adults, published in March 2026 by Healthwatch’s Savanta , found that private healthcare use had nearly doubled from...
Peter Friedman
Tomorrow’s NHS advice: Chase us, or die trying
Patient-initiated follow-up is supposed to give people control. But as the NHS transfers responsibility for restarting care, chasing risks becoming part of the treatment – and receiving a response part of the...
Patients have become the NHS’s unpaid follow-up department
The NHS waiting list is visible because it is counted. The administrative work surrounding that wait is less visible, although patients perform more of it every day. People telephone departments, check whether referrals...
Richard Hall
No reply. Slow reply. Unhelpful reply. Why doesn’t accessibility cover this?
Accessibility is strictly written into laws on disability and communication. But replies? We’ll get back to you on that. Maybe. Eventually. Maybe not. Recent research has carefully documented these familiar digital...
A Law Firm’s First Impression? Uncannily Warm and Cuddly. But It Just Doesn’t Last
Most clients begin their relationship with a law firm feeling impressed. Some of the strongest criticism, however, comes from those who say that warmth and attentiveness later give way to distance, inconsistency and...
Law Firms Don’t Have a Lead-Generation Problem. They Have a Reply Problem
Law firms invest heavily in generating new enquiries. They pay for search advertising, search engine optimisation, redesigned websites, directory listings, social media, referral networks and business-development teams...
Jonathan Friedman
The 42 Hour Paradox: Why We Keep Making Our Responses Slower
We are currently living through a bizarre operational paradox. In the last two decades, corporate technology stacks have evolved exponentially. We have transitioned from basic email servers to complex CRMs, intelligent...
Gabriel Fitzpatrick
Today’s Zero Trust Frameworks Are Creating Inbox Paranoia
Here at ReplyResearch, we’re constantly on the lookout for insights impacting your corporate reachability and responsiveness. We just uncovered a truly fascinating piece of academic research that comes up with a brand...
Is Customer Service having a Hotel California Moment?
You can checkout any time you like, but… What The Atlantic’s article about sludge reveals when we look at who can reach an organisation, who gets a response and who is left chasing… forever? Chris Colin’s...
Dr. Mark Friedman
