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Britain At Work: A Marriage Breakdown In Progress?
Relationships between employers and employees in many British workplaces resemble a marriage under stress, characterised by poor communications and low levels of trust. This leads to underperformance, low productivity and high levels of staff turnover.
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Attitudes To Abortion - trends
Ipsos has been examining attitudes to abortion on behalf of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (bpas) via surveys since 1997. These findings have also been trended with a 1980 MORI question on abortion from a survey for the Sunday Times.
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Attitudes To Abortion
Ipsos has been examining attitudes to abortion on behalf of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (bpas) via three surveys since 1997. These findings have also been trended with a 1980 MORI question on abortion from a survey for the Sunday Times.
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Race Relations 2006
Despite ongoing issues relating to the 2005 London bombings, the threat of terrorism and the impact of new immigrants to the country, people's own experiences of prejudice and discrimination appear relatively unchanged from previous years. Perceptions of integration and attitudes to race relations also remain the same with ethnic minorities continuing the trend of being more positive than white people on most measures.
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Government Delivery Index
The British public continue to be sceptical about the government's ability to improve the state of Britain's economy and public services, according to the latest Ipsos Government Delivery Index — our regular 'health check' on government performance and public expectations for the future of the economy and public services.
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Attitudes Towards Gordon Brown And John Reid
Gordon Brown has a clear lead over John Reid as being seen as the most capable Prime Minister and in understanding Britain's problems according to the latest Ipsos poll for The Sun.
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National Patient Choice Survey, Wave 1
One of the government's cornerstones of its NHS reform is providing more choice to patients to make the NHS more flexible and responsive. Since the beginning of 2006, patients are entitled to be offered a choice of four or more hospitals when referred by their GP. The Department of Health commissioned Ipsos to undertake a major regular postal survey assessing the implementation of this policy in primary care.
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Checking Out In-Store Reality
More than 50% say there are too many varieties on supermarket shelves; current products felt to be over-packaged by many
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Britons Most Worried By Crime — And Government Is Least Trusted To Deal With It
People in Britain are more worried about crime and violence than other major countries in Europe and the US, according to an international survey by the Ipsos International Social Trends Unit. The quarterly study — the International Social Trends Monitor — shows that over two in five British people find crime and violence one of the most worrying issues (43%), double the level in Germany (21%). Even Americans are far less concerned (27%).
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Understanding Public And Patient Attitudes To The NHS
This year the Healthcare Commission is supplementing its annual State of Healthcare report on the "the provision of healthcare by or for NHS bodies" in England and Wales with a summary of NHS-related research published by Ipsos since 2000. This supplementary report looks at public and patient priorities for, and satisfaction with, a wide range of different aspects of the NHS. The report highlights key trends over the last five years, looks at regional and demographical differences, and summarises areas of change.