Year in and year out, for over 100 years, life expectancy had risen in the UK. This stopped in 2011. Across the country people are actually dying younger and infant mortality is rising. Social researcher Dr Robert Putnam of the University of Manchester recently drew the conclusion on BBC News that “poverty, austerity and cuts to public services are impacting on how long people are living in the UK”. In fact, in the industrialised world, only the US has had a sharper decrease in life expectancy.
Now, the NHS is experiencing a historic crisis. We are short of 6,000 doctors, […]
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