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Austerity to blame for the fall in healthy life expectancy | Letters

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Austerity to blame for the fall in healthy life expectancy | Letters
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Readers respond to the news that people in the UK are spending fewer years in good health than a decade agoA major cause of the fall in healthy life expectancy (People in UK spend fewer years in good health than a decade ago, study finds, 27 April) is austerity and the continued cuts to social and health spending. In our report Still Digging Deeper: The Impact of Austerity on Inequalities and Deprivation in the Coalfield Areas, which covers Scotland, England and Wales for the period 1984-2024, w

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