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International Women's Day: Spotlight Projects in Public Affairs
To celebrate International Women's Day across Public Affairs, we wanted to explore various policy areas and projects completed over the past year and put spotlight on how they are able to contribute towards this year's theme of 'Accelerating Action'.
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Easier access to GP practice appointments is now the public’s top priority for the NHS, overtaking resolving staffing issues
The public’s priorities for the NHS have shifted since May 2024. For the first time, making it easier to get appointments at GP practices is the public’s top priority for the NHS (38%). This is followed by improving waiting times for A&E (33%), reducing the number of staff leaving the NHS by improving working conditions (29%) and reducing waste and improving the efficiency of NHS services (29%).
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DHSC publish results from survey on the work-related quality of life and wellbeing of the adult social care workforce.
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) commissioned Ipsos, the University of Kent and Skills for Care to develop, design and conduct a survey of the adult social care workforce in England to measure work-related quality of life and wellbeing. This research was commissioned and conducted in 2023, but the findings are still relevant and provide insights and evidence to inform policy development to support the adult social care workforce.
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Public Affairs Insights: Our Flagship Publications
Explore our thought leadership on the state of public opinion on politics and society, policy and public services.
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Navigating the AI Transition
Our research shows there is one essential factor that must underpin all efforts if the UK is to succeed in its AI ambitions: trust.
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Trust or bust: Realising the UK's AI ambitions
There is one essential factor that must underpin all the UK government's efforts in order for the UK to succeed in its AI ambitions: trust.
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More than half of the public would support farmers if they decided to strike, in line with support shown for nurses and ambulance workers
Pensioners, farmers, small businesses, working people and ‘people like me’ are the groups most seen to be treated worse than they should be by the British government.
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A national grant to digitise and streamline adult social care assessments has been used to progress innovative practice in local authorities
Ipsos and IPC’s evaluation identified a range of examples of good and interesting practice where local authorities used the grant to fund new ways of managing and delivering assessments
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Using a Discrete Choice Experiment to understand the public’s decision-making around arranging and paying for residential care
In 2023, Ipsos conducted research on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to explore how likely those expected to self-fund any necessary future residential care would be to involve their local authority in arranging the care and the factors influencing their decisions.
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Collecting data on income, assets and care needs to inform policy decisions on paying for social care
Laura Tuhou and Claire Lambert look at the feasibility and acceptability of collecting data about people’s income, assets and care needs as part of a survey aiming to inform future policy decisions about paying for care and support, and at what could make a survey on this more acceptable to the people invited to take part.