Very interesting article on reducing life expectancy in the UK

Arnie Pye

Arnie Pye

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Life expectancy shock: people in UK projected to live shorter lives than previously thought
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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 for this are huge and the reasons the statistics were revised is a tragedy on an enormous scale.
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Article continues here :

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11983125
 
Danny Dorling, professor of human geography at the University of Oxford, said influenza, obesity, alcohol and smoking could largely be ruled out as contributory factors.

“The fall in life expectancy in several geographical areas of England is most likely a result of the effects of public service cuts and austerity,” he said. “Many other possibilities can be ruled out. Rates of smoking and drinking alcohol have fallen in recent years so that cannot be blamed. Between 2009 and very late 2017 there has been no serious influenza outbreak.

“A government that has chosen to make these cuts, and any of the organisations it directly sponsors, will understandably find this very hard to face up to.”
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-torridge-amber-valley-barnsley-a8164171.html
 
Arnie Pye said:
I wonder what the effect will be of the propagation of MUS "treatment" around the NHS? I'm sure it will affect life expectancy for many people.

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I think it's bound to. I havent met that many people with ME but of the people I have met:

One died of cancer that was diagnosed very late - quite possibly because she already had a diagnosis of ME. At least her carer felt it was a factor.

One was referred by her GP to a surgeon who spent the whole of the physical exam belittling her because she had ME. She was told she needed non urgent surgery and the waiting list was 6 months plus. She told her GP who sent her to someone else, but didn't tell the second surgeon about the ME. He told her it was urgent and he wanted surgery carried out ASAP, preferably within the month. She asked him what would happen if she waited 6 months and her told her she would probabbly die.

I assume with MUS it can on!y be worse.

We already know that the mentally ill are less likely to receive the treatment they require.
 
An blog at Ecclesia about this suggested a link to the UK's benefit cuts:

Austerity, welfare reform, and deaths
By Bernadette Meaden
January 18, 2018
The suggestion that people in the UK have died, and are dying, because of government policies is sometimes dismissed as extreme. But in the face of growing evidence, it would seem more extreme to deny the possibility.
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http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/25030
 
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