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• Health (UK)

  Britain: Five reasons why this National Health Service (NHS) winter may be different

  2 December 2019, by ANANDACIVA Siva

  Last month saw the publication of the most recent NHS winter performance data the last set of performance data that will be published before the general election. What does this data suggest about the prospects for the NHS and its patients as we head into winter?
  Winter is always a difficult (...)

• Health (UK)

  Britain (health): Austerity to blame for 130,000 ‘preventable’ UK deaths – report

  1 June 2019, by HELM Toby

  Two decades of public health improvements have stalled, says IPPR thinktank.
  More than 130,000 deaths in the UK since 2012 could have been prevented if improvements in public health policy had not stalled as a direct result of austerity cuts, according to a hard-hitting analysis to be (...)