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NHS and healthcare is top concern of voters, latest poll reveals

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By: Mike Underwood

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British voters from across the political spectrum say their biggest concern is healthcare in the UK, a new WeThink poll shows.

It has consistently been the biggest worry for people in the UK since the pollsters began asking voters in September 2022 what concerns them.

In the latest poll, the top five concerns were (changes from last week in brackets):

70

NHS / Healthcare (+2)

60

The economy (-3)

51

Inflation (+3)

42

Immigration (+1)

36

Poverty / inequality (-1)

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Of those who said the NHS was their biggest worry, Labour voters were most concerned, followed closely by Conservative voters. Here’s the percentage of voters from each party who said healthcare was their biggest concern:

74

Labour

70

Conservative

67

LibDem

67

Green

63

Reform

54

SNP

The top five concerns have barely changed since WeThink began polling, and comes as the long-running British Social Attitudes survey revealed public satisfaction with the NHS is at its lowest-ever score. 

LOSE THE TV LICENCE FEE? 

The BBC's director general Tim Davie announced that the corporation will explore how to reform the licence fee. We asked if the BBC should continued to be funded by the licence fee? 

57% no 
27% yes 
16% don’t know 

57

No

27

Yes

16

Don't know

EASTER: THE REASON FOR THE SEASON... 

You can’t go anywhere in the run-up to Easter without having a chocolate egg shoved in your face. So we thought we’d find out people’s attitudes to the religious holiday.  

Is Easter a religious time for you?

70

No

30

Yes

Our questioning also revealed that more people will buy chocolate eggs than go to church this Easter... Will you be going to church over the Easter weekend? 

  • 81% no
  • 19% yes 

I have bought or will buy Easter eggs this year... 

  • 73% yes
  • 27% no

ON VOTER INTENTION

Labour loses a little momentum as it drops four points in our latest voter intention polling while Sir Keir Starmer extends his lead in our Best Prime Minister tracker.

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ON BREXIT

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BREXIT (All Respondents)

48

Re-join (NC)

32

Stay Out (NC)

20

Don't know / won't vote (+1)

This week’s poll was conducted on 27th - 28th March 2024, questioned 1,285 people and is weighted to a national representative population.

For all of WeThink’s polling results and news, visit: www.wethink.report or follow WeThink on the following social media platforms:

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