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Three Score Years and When?
New Ipsos research undertaken for BUPA explores attitudes and opinions about an aging population and workforce, among the general public and senior HR executives.
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Patients' Views Are Lost In Translation
The public think the NHS is in crisis yet patients consistently report high levels of satisfaction with the care they receive. Lost in Translation — a new report published today by the NHS Confederation — examines why there is such a large gap in perceptions.
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What The Public Thinks Of The Party Leaders (And The Leader-In-Waiting)
The public's detailed image of the Prime Minister has deteriorated significantly in the last 18 months, analysis of data from the Ipsos Political Monitor shows; but while Gordon Brown's image is better, it shares many of the most negative characteristics of Mr Blair's. The poll, conducted at the start of September (before the recent public falling out over the Prime Minister's retirement date) finds that Mr Brown, like Mr Blair, is primarily seen as out of touch, though the public also admit that he has sound judgment, a description they are reluctant to apply to Tony Blair, and many more people describe him as inflexible, tending to talk down to people and narrow minded than have the same impression of the Conservative and Liberal Democrat leaders.
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Ipsos Political Monitor August / September 2006
Satisfaction with the performance of Tony Blair as prime minister has hit new lows over the past two months, the latest Ipsos poll has found. The prime minister's performance rating is now barely a third of what it was immediately following his landslide election in 1997.
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Ethnic Minority Voters And Non-Voters At The 2005 British General Election
On Saturday 9 September 2006, Dr Roger Mortimore (Ipsos's Senior Political Analyst) spoke at the EPOP Conference in Nottingham*, on "Ethnic Minority Voters and Non-Voters at the 2005 British General Election", delivering a paper by himself and Kully Kaur-Ballagan (Ipsos Head of Ethnic Minority Research). The paper, which draws on Ipsos research conducted for the Electoral Commission after last year's election, explores the turnout and votes of Britain's various Black and minority ethnic (BME) communities. Turnout is strongly associated with a positive attitude to elections in general, as might be expected; but there is also some evidence of a strong community effect, with those who live in areas with many other BME residents disproportionately likely to have voted. Surprisingly, there is no evidence that attitudes to the government's policy in Iraq had any significant effect. The findings also illustrate how a high quality research design, including respondents from...
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Ipsos Political Survey August
Two thirds of the British public (64%) believe that it is fair to say that Tony Blair is "all spin, but no substance" according to Ipsos's latest political poll exclusively for The Sunday Times. Just 28% of the public say that this criticism is unfair, giving a "spin over substance" index of +36. The public is divided about whether this accusation can be applied to Gordon Brown: 41% say it can and 45% say it cannot (an index of -4). A large proportion of the public have yet to decide about David Cameron, but where people do give an opinion they are more likely to say he is all spin, but no substance. Cameron's spin index is +11 (with 42% saying he is all spin and 31% saying he is not). Opinion about the leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Menzies Campbell, divides three ways: 28 % agree he is all spin, but no substance; 36 % say he is not; and 36% say they don't know. This gives Campbell an index score of -8.
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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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Perceptions Of England's Northwest 2006
Ipsos undertook a programme of research with residents, businesses and opinion leaders in the Northwest, across the UK as well as Europe and the US (opinion leaders only). All fieldwork was conducted between 6th January and 5th March 2006. The research follows on from similar studies conducted by Ipsos for NWDA in 2001 and 2003 and trends have been included in this report where relevant.
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Voting intentions In Scotland 2005-2006
Since the 2005 General Election, there has been a dearth of information published on voting intentions in Scotland, with only one published poll in April 2006. This article details the pattern of stated voting intentions in Scotland measured in Ipsos's Social Policy Monitor survey in 2005 and the first half of 2006. This survey is a face-to-face in-home 'omnibus' survey that uses random pre-selected sampling rather than quota sampling, and is therefore a unique source of polling data for Scotland.
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Ipsos Political Monitor February
British electors' attitudes to the new Tory Leader David Cameron have not shifted over the past month, according to the latest Ipsos's February Political Monitor for The Sun. The poll, conducted between 16 and 20 February among 1,958 British adults aged 18+, continues to show that over half the public (52%) are hesitant to express an opinion about the way David Cameron is doing his job.