Public Health

The top 10 issues across this month exactly match the top 10 issues across 2012, indicating that the public's priorities are unshifting as we go into the new year.

Ipsos's aggregated data from all 12 months of our 2012 Issues Index surveys, with the most important issues broken down by gender, age, ethnicity, social class and by voting intention. This is based on a total of more than 10,000 interviews, aggregated from the 12 individual polls.

Our final Issues Index of 2012 shows the list of issues of most concern to the British public in the run up to Christmas, with a comparison to the local issues that fill up MP's postbags.

Ipsos carried out a telephone survey for the Nuffield Trust on public spending and the NHS.

As the Bank of England welcomes the appointment of a new governor, concern about the economy shows no sign of abating, with the well off especially concerned.

Ipsos conducted an ethnographic study for NHS Kidney Care to understand the world surrounding a young adult with kidney disease, to learn about and see the types of challenges they face in everyday life as a consequence of having a long-term condition.

Despite today's GDP figures showing that the UK has emerged from the double dip recession, half of the public (52%) still consider the economy to be among the most important issues facing Britain today,

Concern about the economy falls in line with an increase in economic optimism, according to our September Issues Index.

Despite the public's captivation with London 2012, the economy and unemployment remains top of their agenda.