People in England 'living shorter lives than they should' due to austerity and cuts

People in England are “suffering avoidable ill-health and living shorter lives than they should" due to austerity and cuts to essential services, new analysis shows.

Among the leading MPs highlighted in the report who have “particularly concerning health trends” in their constituencies are former Prime Minister Liz Truss, Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove and former Health Secretary Steve Barclay. “If you slash the services that support people then health will be harmed. Levelling up was supposed to provide badly-needed funding for the most deprived areas. But it was a derisory amount and, as a result, never going to improve health.”Key findings from the new report include:

He added: “This is a dismal state of affairs. I’m saying to party leaders: stop policies harming health and widening health inequalities. For females, these include Kensington & Chelsea in London, where the difference in inequality grew over this period from 6.2 to 11.9 years, Guildford in Surrey , Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire , and Rotherham .Across all local authorities, the report found that the lower the life expectancy, the greater the inequality in life expectancy within the area.

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