A nation in poor health: can Scotland’s politicians reverse a deepening crisis?

A nation in poor health: can Scotland’s politicians reverse a deepening crisis?

Scotland’s NHS is under mounting strain, with falling life expectancy and widening inequalities — as political parties set out competing plans,…

UK Government ‘austerity’ measures the key driver of Scotland’s falling life expectancy in good health and Labour will do nothing to reverse it

The Herald today has: The graph above from the BMJ in 2022 puts the trend in an historical perspective, revealing that expected life expectancy in ‘good health’ remains significantly higher than it was 30 years ago. The Herald report surprisingly, or not, dies not seem to have looked at the work of Glasgow University researchers led by David Walsh in 2022, which found Concerning changes in mortality and life expectancy trends have been observed …