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How does life expectancy vary across London? Check our interactive map

Twenty-five of London’s 32 boroughs now have life expectancy below the state pension age of 66

Evening Standard

How Britain’s housing crisis contributes to its declining healthy life expectancy

People in the UK are now spending fewer years in good health than they did a decade ago, according to a new analysis by the Health Foundation. The UK now sits near the bottom of a 21-country comparison, ahead only of the US.

The Conversation

Austerity to blame for the fall in healthy life expectancy

Letters: Readers respond to the news that people in the UK are spending fewer years in good health than a decade ago

The Guardian - UK

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People in UK spending fewer years in good health, study finds as nation’s health declines

A recent analysis indicates that Britons are experiencing fewer years of good health, signaling a troubling decline in healthy life expectancy. As the UK ranks near the bottom among affluent nations, the rise in obesity and chronic illnesses has become a pressing issue.

The Times of India

Ministers have no chance of improving the health of the UK if women continue to be failed

ANALYSIS: Rebecca Thomas takes a closer look at why the ‘healthy life expectancy’ of women has declined far more for women that it has for men

The Independent UK

UK Healthy Life Expectancy is Reportedly Dropping, With Poorer Areas Losing 20 Years of Healthy Life

Healthy life expectancy in the UK is declining, with significant disparities between rich and poor areas, leading to increased years spent in ill health and highlighting growing inequality.

International Business Times UK

Findings on healthy life expectancy in UK shed light on its deteriorating health

Metric gives fuller picture than life expectancy, which is simply how long people live, says Health Foundation

The Guardian - UK

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Sharp rise in young Britons saying ill health is reason they are jobless, study finds

Share of 16- to 24-year-old Neets who report a work-limiting condition up 70% in a decade, says thinktank

The Guardian - UK

Surge in young people jobless due to growing health crisis

New analysis has found the the number of young people citing health problems as a reason for being out of work has risen sharply in the past decade

The Independent UK

The people most likely to use weight loss jabs, according to new research

Almost 80 per cent of private prescriptions for weight loss jabs are for women, research reveals

The Independent UK

Women and the middle classes dominate take-up of weight loss jabs

Analysis of private prescriptions for drugs like Mounjaro show that almost 80% are for women

Evening Standard

New research reveals who’s really taking weight loss jabs

Analysis of private prescriptions for drugs like Mounjaro show that almost 80 per cent are for women

The Independent UK

Hospitals in England ‘face dangerous winter overcrowding due to discharge delays’

Exclusive: Analysis of NHS data shows rise in patients ‘stranded’ in beds as flu crisis hits and resident doctors’ strikes loom

The Guardian - UK

UK ‘to lose 600,000 workers to illness without better health support at work’

Exclusive: Royal Society of Public Health says ‘fundamental shift’ needed in how firms help those with health conditions

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The Independent UK

Government could fall short on pledge to cut NHS waiting lists, analysis finds

Sir Keir Starmer has set a target for the health service to carry out 92% of routine operations within 18 weeks by the end of Parliament in 2029.

The Independent UK

Government set to miss key NHS waiting list pledge as Labour fails to get a grip on crisis

While the government looks set to considerably reduce the waiting list, it is likely to fall just short of its own target

Evening Standard

Deprivation and ethnicity behind ‘considerable’ inequality in premature death

Premature mortality is defined as someone who dies from any cause before they reach the age of 75.

The Guardian - UK

Britain’s ‘medieval’ health inequality is devastating NHS, experts say

Exclusive: Health service estimated to be spending £50bn a year on effects of deprivation and child poverty

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Evening Standard

Social care needs minimum of £3.4bn to avoid decline, think tank warns

The Health Foundation called on the Government to ‘signal its commitment’ ahead of the upcoming spending review.

Evening Standard

Digitising NHS and adult social care ‘will cost £21bn over the next five years’

The Government has pledged to move services from analogue to digital as part of its ‘three shifts’ for the NHS.

The Independent UK

Doctors cry out for investment after survey finds GP access is top priority for patients

Chair of the Royal College of GPs says it is ‘no surprise’ that better access to GP appointments was the main priority for the public

The Independent UK

GP access tops list of public’s NHS concerns, survey finds

The Government’s health service aims and the public’s priorities may be misaligned, the Health Foundation think tank found.

Dynamite News

Pakistan has highest number of hepatitis C cases in world: Pak PM's aide

While addressing participants of a seminar organised by the Health Foundation on hepatitis elimination, he said, "This places us at the heart of the global effort to eliminate this disease." Read further on Dynamite News:

The Independent UK

Proposals for long-term social care funding and reform expected by 2028

The first steps to creating a National Care Service for England have been outlined by the Government.

Evening Standard

Calls for 'urgent action' as reforms of 'crumbling' social care sector delayed until 2028

The first steps to creating a National Care Service for England have been outlined by the Government.

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