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Originally Posted by Damien
It seems the biggest burdens on the NHS are an ageing population, obesity and alcohol. In 1948 there were fewer old people relative to the population and fewer treatments available. I am not sure the problem with the NHS is snowflakes using it for minor conditions.
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Actually life expectancy is now plateauing.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/...-a8131526.html
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On 16 November, an article in the British Medical Journal Open concluded that severe public spending cuts in the UK were associated with 120,000 deaths between 2010 and 2017.
Buried deep in a note towards the end of a recent bulletin published by the British Government’s statistical agency was a startling revelation. On average, people in the UK are now projected to live shorter lives than previously thought.
In their projections, published in October 2017, statisticians at the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimated that by 2041, life expectancy for women would be 86.2 years and 83.4 years for men. In both cases, that’s almost a whole year less than had been projected just two years earlier. And the statisticians said life expectancy would only continue to creep upwards in future.
As a result, and looking further ahead, a further one million earlier deaths are now projected to happen across the UK in the next 40 years by 2058. This number was not highlighted in the report. But it jumped out at us when we analysed the tables of projections published alongside it.
It means that the 110 years of steadily improving life expectancy in the UK are now officially over. The implications of this are huge and the reasons the statistics were revised is a tragedy on an enormous scale...
...And then, after 2011, under the Conservative-led Governments of David Cameron and Theresa May, nothing. No improvement. Life expectancy flat-lined.
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I have been in and out of hospital with my elderly mother, who is in failing health with heart failure, several times over the last few months. They've never admitted her although I'm sure they should have done as more than once I've had to bring her back next day, or paramedics have had to take her back in. Getting her in and out of the house is a major exercise and very risky given she can hardly walk. There are basically no beds and if you've got anyone at home, they just send you home - false economy giving we have call the ambulance out several times - not for minor things, collapsing and not being able to breathe... It's an impossible situation for the NHS and anyone that needs it at the moment (and my hospital is supposedly one of the best performing trusts in the country !)