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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Phillip Inman and Richard Partington

Worsening health of Britons is holding back UK economy, Andy Haldane warns

an ambulance
Andy Haldane says improving health had been an accelerator of wellbeing for the last 200 years, but is now serving as a brake in the rise of growth and wellbeing of citizens. Photograph: Joshua Bratt/PA

The worsening health of the British people is holding back economic growth for the first time since the Industrial Revolution after years of underinvestment in services, Andy Haldane has warned.

The chief executive of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) said more than a century of progress on health and wellbeing was going into reverse, with a direct impact on the economy and the cost of living emergency.

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