Thursday 15 March 2018

Life expectancy to fall one year, with middle classes among hardest hit 

Life expectancy to fall one year, with middle classes among hardest hit Life expectancy is falling, Oxford University experts have warned, saying the trends could hit the middle class the hardest.

Writing in the BMJ, they revealed a 13 per cent rise in death rates in the first months of this year in England as Wales, as the NHS came under strain.

And they said “awful” increases in death rates in recent years had forced the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to revise its forecasts, reducing UK predicted life span by almost a full year.

Writing in the BMJ, they revealed an extra 10,000 deaths in the first seven weeks of this year, compared with average figures in the last five years. The Daily Telegraph

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