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Many Patients "Willing To Travel Abroad For Treatment"
Research by the MORI Social Research Institute for the British Medical Association has found that more than two in five (42%) patients would be willing to travel outside the UK for treatment and that more than half (51%) believe involving other organisations — including the private sector — would improve the provision of NHS health care.
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Attitudes towards Asylum Seekers for 'Refugee Week'
A poll by MORI Social Research Institute, and published on the eve of Refugee Week, tried to ascertain the British public's attitudes to refugees and asylum seekers, their knowledge about refugees and their perception of the media coverage.
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Public Attitudes to Transport in England
Transport continues to dominate both the national and local agenda. Three in ten people spontaneously cite transport as a main problem facing Britain today, while over four in ten see it as the most important local issue with congestion cited as the main problem
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Single European Currency Tracker, May 2002
Our latest MORI poll (carried out just after the 'Paxman' interviews) suggests that PM Blair's pro-EMU comments have failed to generate much rise in public support for EMU entry.
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Architectural Superstars Leave English Cold
The English people are passionate about buildings but don't care a jot who designs them, is the main finding of a major new survey published today by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) and conducted by MORI.
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Who's Asking? Answers May Depend On It
Last November we conducted a survey of British Asians on their attitudes to the military strikes in Afghanistan and to the War against Terrorism for Eastern Eye, a weekly newspaper aimed at Britain's Asian community. Over a third of the interviews were conducted by Asian interviewers. Therefore, in an interesting spin-off to the research we decided to look at whether or not the ethnicity of the interview made a difference on the answers given i.e. was there an interviewer effect? A number of studies in the United States and the in UK have been carried out looking into this phenomenon and several show that where the ethnicity of interviewer and respondent are matched, the responses yielded are different from those where they are not. These studies also suggest, however, that the interviewer effect only tends to be important when the subject of the survey is sensitive to the respondents' ethnicity or cultural background — which is what we found.
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Going to Iraq and Ruin
MORI's latest poll on the War on Terrorism, published this week in Time Magazine, shows a very sharp fall in public approval for the government's handling of the crisis since MORI's last poll on the subject on 22-27 November last year. Just over half the public, 52%, say they approve of the way Mr Blair has handled the British response to the terrorist attacks, whereas in November he had the support of more than seven in ten, 71%.
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Single European Currency Tracker, March 2002
Our latest MORI poll shows that public support for EMU entry has fallen again after jumping in January. The balance of opinion against EMU entry is similar to the average of the past four years.
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Only 22 Weeks To Even The Score, Tony
Anti-hunt campaigners today urged the Prime Minister to take action to ban hunting with dogs in England and Wales following the historic success of the hunting bill in Scotland.
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Joining The Euro: All Companies' Polls 1999-2002
MORI, ICM, Gallup. NOP and Eurobarometer published polls on joining the Single European Currency