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Gavin Francis · 24 Aug 2023

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  1. Our reading

    The UK's life expectancy has fallen due to political decisions regarding health and social care funding.

    Their wordsBy 2015, the UK had slipped to 21st, and, by 2021, it had fallen to 29th, because of political decisions about the funding of health and social care.

  2. Our reading

    The NHS is underfunded compared to other comparable European countries.

    Their wordsAn international analysis of NHS finance and performance published in the British Medical Journal in 2019 concluded that we are falling way behind comparable countries in terms of the quality of our healthcare, but also that we are paying a lot less towards health than those other countries

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