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30 June – BBC News reports that one in 25,000 people had COVID-19 on 26 June, while hospitalisations from the illness stood at 3.31 in every 100,000 on 16 June, a slight increase from 2.87 per 100,000 the previous week. The article also notes that data is no longer collected in the same way it was at the height of the pandemic.
A report published in November 2020 by Ofsted on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children in England after their first period out of school found that whilst some children had coped well with lockdown often enjoying the extra time with their families, others had struggled, regressing academically and losing basic skills such as young ...
In England, in 2016, 26.2% of adults were obese and it is forecast that levels of obesity will increase by 2023. A study by Public Health England in 2017 found that 41% of the 15.3 million English adults aged 40 to 60 do not walk for as much as 10 minutes continuously each month at a brisk pace. A quarter of the English population was found to ...
Union leaders repeated calls for a decent pay rise for health workers.
The New Economics Foundation (NEF) has estimated that 23.4 million people will be short of funds to meet the “acceptable standard of living” by April 2022, by an average of £8,600 per year.
Smoking is the greatest cause of avoidable illness and death in England and costs the NHS £2.5 billion a year and the economy £11bn. [131] Public Health England (PHE) states that one in four hospital patients smoke tobacco products, higher than the proportion in the general population, and smoking causes 96,000 deaths per year in England and ...
There’s a nationwide surge in respiratory illnesses, as 16 states report "high" or "very high" activity levels. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals an increase in ...
Life expectancy development in UK by gender Comparison of life expectancy at birth in England and Wales. Healthcare in the United Kingdom is a devolved matter, with England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales each having their own systems of publicly funded healthcare, funded by and accountable to separate governments and parliaments, together with smaller private sector and voluntary provision.