UK public satisfaction with NHS dropped

The King’s Fund health policy think tank reports, based on data from the annual British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey, which sampled 1,000 adults between July and November last year, revealed large drops in satisfaction with inpatient, outpatient and accident and emergency services in the UK.

“Patients can already see the damage being done to services and staff morale by David Cameron’s disastrous decision to reorganise the NHS at a time of financial stress. It is heading back to the bad old days of the 80s and 90s with waiting times, AE in chaos and patients waiting for hours on trolleys in corridors,” said Andy Burnham, Labour’s shadow health secretary.

However, the British Tory-led government used the results of its own telephone survey run by the pollsters Mori to rebut the findings.

The UK government’s own polling on the NHS, which is due to be published today on June 12, is expected to show public satisfaction has remained stable at around 70 percent at similar times last year.

“It may be that a combination of ministerial rhetoric to justify the reforms, concern about the reforms themselves and reaction to the funding squeeze combined to create worries about the NHS and dent the public perception it is being run well.” said John Appleby, the King Fund’s chief economist.

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