Trust in Professions

The public's trust in doctors remains extraordinarily high despite the Shipman trial.

The public's trust in doctors remains at a remarkably high level, according to a new MORI opinion poll commissioned by the BMA, which tracks views on doctors over a 16 year period.

Richard Branson has succeeded in toppling his long-time rival, Sir Colin Marshall, Chairman of British Airways, as Britain's most impressive industrialist. He comes first in the 1997 MORI's annual survey of Britain's Captains of Industry, nominated spontaneously by 25 per cent of his peers.