[Margaret Pilkington]

Cashy, they won't call unless you have had a letter.
The have chosen random addresses for the participants.
I sent my letter back on the 29th of December with the express information that I didn't want to be part of this survey.
Though the interviewer said he didn't get this information, my guess would be that he did, and just thought that if he turned up we would not turn him away....his luck wasn't in....and I found his manner quite aggressive...which is a sure way to make me harden my attitude.
He took my name and telephone number. I told him to tell Natcen not to call me, but if they do they will get a serve of hot tongue from me.

Himself answered the door(I was in my jimjams) he must've mentioned that I had been a nurse......so the chap said he couldn't understand why, if I had worked in the NHS, I wouldn't want to help.
I told him that these surveys do not make one jot of difference to how services are commissioned, and that they are just useless paper exercises to make the population think they are being listened to...and my life was too short to be answering his probing personal questions about my health and lifestyle...and that I could not be sure how secure this information would be once given up to Natcen.

He waffled on about Natcen being reliable, but by then I wanted to chin him.
15 minutes on the doorstep(me in my Pj's) talking to him, is not my idea of a pleasant evening.