The findings from the 2023 British Social Attitudes survey on public satisfaction with the NHS make for grim reading – and set politicians a tough exam question for this general election campaign. Overall satisfaction with the NHS was down, with less than a quarter of the public (24%) saying they were satisfied with how the NHS runs nowadays. This was the lowest figure recorded since the BSA survey began in 1983 and has fallen by 29 percentage points in just three years. Satisfaction with individual services was at record lows.
