Hi It feels a little rude to jump into this list with a request for help, so apologies, but here goes.
I am (amongst other things) an active contributor to the Mumsnet forum. The forum members site were recently asked to contribute to the Cross Party Inquiry on Unwanted Pregnancy in the UK which is aimed at grounding UK strategy on abortion and contraception on evidence, health and social priorities and avoid it becoming highjacked by religious agendas - (http://m.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/12/sexual-health-inquiry-abortion-debate?). The request has led to a rich but unstructured discussion on the site, with one of the main conclusions being that some people still have a hard time accessing contraception, because some GPs don't offer all options, and some family planning clinics have severely limited hours and long waits for appointments - but this seems to be very variable around the country. What some of us thought would be useful and powerful, rather than continue to have an unstructured natter which doesn't lend itself to feeding into the inquiry would be to build a little survey website where people can put in their postcode and then answer 3-4 basic questions rating aspects of their experience of accessing contraception building an instant heat map of how easy it is to access family planning services around the country, perhaps combined with a feature where people can add longer stories about their experience. My guess is that someone with the technical nous could build a quicky site like this pretty easily using Mapit and other bits of existing kit. Unfortunately I am not that person (although keen to learn!). They are looking for written evidence in September-October so it is really is something to be done quickly or not at all. Would anyone be willing have a go at knocking this up (as it were...) just for the glory? Thanks in advance. Maya Forstater _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
