The parts of England with the highest and lowest life expectancies as figures reveal NHS health postcode lottery
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Your address, your ethnicity, your gender, and above all else your socio-economic status is strongly tied to how long and healthy your life will be. He said:"Certainly access has become more difficult over that time, which would probably widen those wider determinants of health. The NHS operational target is that 92% of people should be treated within 18 weeks following referral by a consultant. However, two fifths of the current 7.4 million waitlist for treatments have been waiting for longer.
There are some extremely disadvantaged neighbourhoods with higher levels of deprivation than in any areas of the country, such as Blackpool, and this plays a big part in poor health outcomes. "For example, people experiencing homelessness or rough sleeping, and migrant communities may not show up in the data."The current NHS crisis and treatment backlog affects everyone, but it may not be affecting everyone equally.decrease in the proportion of people admitted to hospital after presenting at A&E due to bed rationingThe most significant drop in emergency admissions was seen among people living in the most deprived areas, by 80,000 between 2019 and 2022.
This gap has increased slightly since 2015, when it stood at 59%. That's despite the government's efforts to incentivise trainees to take up posts in under-served areas.The Marmot Review on health inequalities, first published in 2010 with a ten year follow up in 2020, concluded that inequalities in health and life expectancy result from social issues including employment, housing and deprivation.
They are also more likely to live in overcrowded conditions and low-income households - defined as living on less than 60% of the average net disposable household income. The prevalence of diagnosed chronic pain is around three fifths higher among Bangladeshi and Pakistani individuals compared to white individuals.Chronic pain among other conditions is also prevalent in deprived neighbourhoods. The prevalence of diagnosed chronic pain is more than double in the most deprived neighbourhoods compared to the least deprived neighbourhoods.
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