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kleinbl00 · 1808 days ago · link · · parent · post: The biggest story in the UK is not Brexit; it’s life expectancy
A metaphor that works on so many levels. I'm just going to leave this here.A boy ends up being treated on the floor of a hospital because the beds are all full, and the beds are full because the system is not working overall.
There has also been a rise in infant mortality. In England and Wales, this rise was concentrated in those same years of maximum public spending cuts. In 2014, 3.6 babies died for every 1,000 born. That rose to 3.7 in 2015, 3.8 in 2016, and 3.9 in 2017 (which sadly is the latest year for which we have data, as funding for ONS has also been cut).
