Hello, Thank you to everyone who contacted me about the statistics help/advice available - I have passed all your suggestions onto the doctor concerned. They are summarised below: Several people suggested the Research Design Service East of England - our local service is based in Norwich http://www.rds-eoe.nihr.ac.uk/ <http://www.rds-eoe.nihr.ac.uk/> . Other suggestions included: http://www.csm-oxford.org.uk/consultancy--collaboration/nhs-statistical- support-team0/ <http://www.csm-oxford.org.uk/consultancy--collaboration/nhs-statistical -support-team0/> -Centre for Statistics in Medicine http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/stathelp <http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/stathelp> - Statistical Advisory Service - Imperial College London I was able to find from our Trust Research Office that there is someone at our local university they often refer people to and other suggestions from other sources included: National Institute for Health Research - details on the attached website http://www.nihr.ac.uk/contact/ <http://www.nihr.ac.uk/contact/> Naturally if the research concerned is conducted via an academic institution they also should be able to help. e.g. with access to the SPSS package. Janet Janet Bayliss Assistant Librarian Library & Learning Resources The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust Education Centre Heath Road IPSWICH Suffolk. IP4 5PD. Tel 01473 702544 or ext. 1544 Email: [log in to unmask] See the library catalogue at http://ipswichhospitals.nhslibraries.com See the library website at http://www.ipswichhospital.nhs.uk/library/library-and-learning-resources .htm A teaching hospital affiliated to the University of Cambridge, the University of East Anglia and University Campus Suffolk. ***************************************************************************** This message and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this in error, you should not disseminate or copy this email. Please notify the sender immediately and delete this email from your system. Please also note that any opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust. Email transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure, or error free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, late in arriving or incomplete as a result of the transmission process – by communicating with the Trust by email you accept these risks. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of email transmission. This footnote also confirms that, unless otherwise stated, this email message has been swept by Sophos Anti-virus for the presence of computer malware including viruses and spyware. *****************************************************************************