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Health and Social Care Funding – Public Perceptions

Dan Wellings, Research Director, Ipsos MORI

@danwellings

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The NHS/health care

Schools

Care for the elderly

The Police

Social services

Benefit payments

Local authority services

Defence

Overseas aid

None of these

Don't know

79

51

51

39

21

10

10

9

4

*

1

Very clear and unchanging message on health spending

Base: All who think some services should be protected (809) Source: Ipsos MORI/Nuffield Trust

Q. “Which TWO or THREE, if any, of the following main areas of public spending do you think should be protected from any cuts?”

-3

-7

+5

+4

+6

+2

+4

-4-1

Change from June ‘09

0

0

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How much of this difference between the generations is related to funding?

1983 1984 1986 1987 1989 1990 1991 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

-40%

-20%

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

Pre War (born before 1945) Baby Boomers (born 1945-1965)Generation X (born 1966-1979) Generation Y (born 1980 onwards)

Data: BSA 1983-2010. Each data point represents >100 respondents

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11%

47%25%

14%

4%

Q On the whole, do you agree or disagree with the following statement:

Some change over time but unrealistic view held by sizeable minority

Source: Ipsos MORI/DH Perceptions of the NHS Tracker 2012 Ipsos MORI/NICE Public attitudes research 2006

There should always be limits on what is spent on the NHS

Base: 1,015 Adults aged 16+ in England, May 2012

1,001 Adults aged 18+ in Great Britain, January 2006

Strongly disagree

Don’t know Strongly agree

Tend to agreeTend to disagree

2006 2012

Agree 44% 58%

Disagree 48% 39%

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Q Many people will need to use social care services when they are older and it is likely that they may have to contribute towards the cost. Before today, to what extent had you thought about preparing financially to pay for social care services you might need when you older?

Will possible change in social care funding start to inform NHS debate?

% Already using social care services% To some extent% To a great extent % Not at all% Hardly at all

8%

26%

22%

44%

1% 5%

22%

17%

55%

Q To what extent are you already preparing financially to pay for the social care services you might need when you are older?

Source: Ipsos MORI/DH Perceptions of the NHS TrackerBase: Adults aged 16+ in England, December 2011 (1001)

We’ve paid into it all our lives…It’s what we’re used to. But if people turn round and said if children are growing

up, from the age of 30 they would start to fall into the new system…

You can’t invoice people for having cancer

Medicine progresses so quickly, and there are so many things that

can be done and people start expecting them, not unreasonably because it’s what we are used to

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Q. “Many experts argue that it is becoming more expensive to fund the NHS because of increasing costs of treatments, an ageing population and several other factors. This means that even in order to maintain the current level of care and services provided for free by the NHS, spending on the NHS would have to increase. With that in mind, which, if any, of the following would you most like to see?”

More taxes preferred option but we did not ask how much more

Base: 1,006 British adults aged 18+, interviewed by telephone, 22-25 November 2012 Source: Ipsos MORI/Nuffield Trust

48%

21%

11%

11%

8%

Don’t know

Increase taxes in order to maintain the level of spending needed to keep the current level of care and services provided by the NHS

Reduce spending on other services such as education and welfare in order to maintain the level of spending needed to keep the current level of care and

services provided by the NHS

Reduce the level of care and services provided by the NHS so that you do not need to increase the

current level of taxation and spending on the NHS

None

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Which two or three of the following, if any, would you say makes you most proud to be British?

In the “marrow of our bones”

The NHS

The Armed Forces

Team GB

The Royal Family

BBC

Nothing

British Business

Houses of Parliament

Marks & Spencer

John Lewis

Oxfam

Women's Institute

Tesco's

Other

Don't Know

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50

45

40

38

36

16

10

6

6

4

4

3

2

1

6

5

Base: 2515 British Adults 16-75, Online Fieldwork conducted between 23 rd-27th November 2012 Source: British Future Polling – State of the Nation 2012/3, Ipsos MORI

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dan.wellings@ipsos.com@danwellings