Social 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.

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.

In 2023, Ipsos conducted research on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care 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.

In 2023/24, Ipsos led an evaluation exploring the impact of a grant for local authorities targeted at digitising and streamlining adult social care assessment processes, on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).

In a new blog post, our Health and Social Care research team looks at what health and social care policies the electorate are looking for from politicians in this general election

3 in 5 Britons say care workers are paid too little in an Ipsos survey of public attitudes towards social care.

The public think that the standard of care of the NHS and social care have got worse over the past 12 months, and only a third of the public think the NHS is providing a good service nationally, according to a new Ipsos survey for The Health Foundation.

The survey, commissioned by Community Integrated Care show 9 in 10 think social care is important

More than half (54%) say they are not confident Liz Truss will introduce policies which are successful in improving the ability of social care services to provide the support people need.