Yes, and surely the answer to increasing numbers on disability, particularly for mental health issues, is to improve the dire state of mental health services. Early intervention rather than intermina… (View Post)

They were pointless without a plan for staffing them. One of the lessons of Covid should be more resilience in the NHS, and that should include not operating at 100% occupation at all times. Planned … (View Post)

But rather like how life expectancy at birth is heavily affected by mortality of the young, so it is with Healthy Life Expectancy. If you are healthy and aged 65-69 then you can expect another decade… (View Post)

I don't think it is either. It needs a bit more info for example on age of parents at death, blood pressure etc (View Post)

Similarly my grandfather spent 1916 on the Somme as an infantry private, then 17-18 in Mesopotamia and died aged 86. It doesn't mean that the Somme was a safe spot for a summer holiday! (View Post)