Furthermore, people are generally unhappy with how the NHS has fared under the coalition: 41% of respondents believe that the healthcare services have got worse over the last three years. The results also highlight fears over the increasing private sector provision of NHS services and concerns that the public might be misled as to how and when these changes are taking place. Full data tables and methodology can be viewed here. A briefing document with all the questions and also new voting intention information can be viewed here:
Friday, 5 July 2013
65th anniversary of the NHS and the public still support the founding principles of the system
65 years after the founding of the NHS, the British public still believes in the ideal of a free, comprehensive healthcare system, according to the results of a poll by Survation. The overall rate of satisfaction with NHS services is high at 85%, with only 7% of people reporting that they were dissatisfied with their treatment. 78% of respondents believe the NHS should always remain free at the point of delivery - a view which is shared by 74% of 2010 Conservative voters, showing that the NHS is valued across the political spectrum.
Furthermore, people are generally unhappy with how the NHS has fared under the coalition: 41% of respondents believe that the healthcare services have got worse over the last three years. The results also highlight fears over the increasing private sector provision of NHS services and concerns that the public might be misled as to how and when these changes are taking place. Full data tables and methodology can be viewed here. A briefing document with all the questions and also new voting intention information can be viewed here:
Andy Burnham MP, Labour's Shadow Health Secretary, on the 65th anniversary of the NHS, said: "Today we should be continuing the celebration that Danny Boyle famously started last year. But, instead, over-shadowing this anniversary is a real sense of worry about where the NHS is heading under David Cameron. Patients and staff have precious little faith that the NHS is safe in this Government's hands. Cameron's re-organisation has put the NHS on the wrong path - a fast-track to fragmentation and privatisation. A&E queues have reached their longest in a decade, whilst one in ten hospitals are under-staffed. The best birthday present that David Cameron could give the NHS is to stop the privatisation, the postcode lottery and the political campaign to run down the NHS. He cynically used the NHS to take the keys to 10 Downing Street, but his betrayal of it will make him hand them back in 2015."
Furthermore, people are generally unhappy with how the NHS has fared under the coalition: 41% of respondents believe that the healthcare services have got worse over the last three years. The results also highlight fears over the increasing private sector provision of NHS services and concerns that the public might be misled as to how and when these changes are taking place. Full data tables and methodology can be viewed here. A briefing document with all the questions and also new voting intention information can be viewed here:
