Hospital treatment

While almost a third of people (30%) don’t have a preference for where they receive NHS-funded care (ie from an NHS or non-NHS provider), there has been an increase in the number of people preferring to go to a service provided by the NHS – 55%, up from 39% in the 2014 British Social Attitudes survey.

Imagine you were a patient about to have hospital treatment and that this treatment was being paid for by the NHS. Would you prefer to receive the treatment from…?

Source: Health Foundation analysis of Ipsos MORI survey of 1,985 adults in Great Britain aged 15 and over, May 2017, filtered to adults aged 18 and over (1,944 respondents), and NatCen’s British Social Attitudes survey of 2,878 adults in Great Britain aged 18 and over, 2014.

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