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Public Say Prevention Is Single Most Important Area For Research Into Age-Related Ill-Health
Preventing ill-health is the public's single most important area for research into ageing, an Ipsos study published today has found. More than twice as many adults in the UK chose research into prevention over research into cure. Research focused on managing conditions and how best to support and care for people who have ill health came second to prevention ahead of cure.
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Support For National Programme For IT
A new report published today shows the National Programme for IT, which is being delivered by NHS Connecting for Health, continues to receive high levels of support among all NHS staff, despite them recognising the challenges involved in delivering it.
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Support For Doctors' Assessments
This Ipsos research, undertaken for the Chief Medical Officer for England's Advisory Group, has looked at medical regulation in the light of the Shipman Inquiry's fifth report. The research was commissioned against the backdrop of the Government's review of the GMC's proposed new system of doctor revalidation. It was conducted among three key audiences — the general public, hospital doctors and GPs.
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The General Public's High Expectations of Adult Social Care
Ipsos's recent research conducted on behalf of Disability Rights Commission (DRC) looks at public attitudes towards social care. The survey reveals that there is a gulf between expectation and provision of adult social care in Great Britain.
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Views Of English Devolution
Ipsos's latest research, conducted for the English Constitutional Convention, shows that there is increasing public support for England to have its own Parliament.
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Faith In The Leadership Abilities Of Senior Managers Has Declined, Research Suggests
Confidence in the leadership abilities of senior managers has declined since the start of 2005, the latest results of The Worker's Index, a bi-annual survey of employees' feelings and attitudes towards work, reveals today.
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Ipsos Political Monitor June
Information on voting intention, satisfaction with party leadership, important issues facing Britain, economic optimism.
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A New British Model?
There is increasing interest in comparing the different approaches to balancing economic and social welfare priorities across countries in Europe and beyond. This has led to new models that have attempted to explain and classify the current government's approach in Britain. For example, Will Hutton has talked about the "social democratising" of the Anglo-Saxon model, and last year Nick Pearce (Director of ippr) and colleagues outlined the "Anglo-Social Model". This describes the approach as an attempt to combine the economic performance and flexibility of liberal welfare states with the social protection and equality of Scandinavian countries.
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Health Service Workers Are The Gloomiest Staff In The Public Services
Health service workers are markedly more disillusioned with their jobs and have less faith in their leaders than their counterparts in the education and local government sectors.
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Over One In Ten Londoners Say They Are Living Below The Poverty Line
According to an Ipsos survey on behalf of the Church Urban Fund (CUF) around one in ten (12%) Londoners say that they are living below what they estimate the poverty line to be.