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Oct 2019
Gulf in healthy life expectancy widening regional inequalities
A leading group of parliamentarians has warned that the gap in healthy life expectancy between areas in Britain has increased over the last ten years to become as large as that between the UK and Sudan.
The report, compiled by the Centre for Progressive Policy thinktank, revealed that levels of health inequality have increased due to factors beyond the quality of local health provision, including employment, income and crime, and also access to good quality education and affordable housing.
The study found that people living in the former mining towns of Blaenau Gwent spend an average of 54.3 years in good health, almost a decade less than the national average of 63.6 years. The highest healthy life expectancy in Britain is found in the market town of Wokingham, at 70.7 years.
The group of MPs and peers, led by Labour MP Liam Byrne, warned that Britain had become one of the most regionally imbalanced economies in the western world and required urgent reform.
Mr Byrne said “there is a growing need to shirt away from trickledown economics towards a new model of inclusive growth. If current trends persist, we’ll continue making the same mistakes; prioritising the quantity of economic grown and forgetting deepening economic divisions that are splitting our society apart.”
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