by The “medieval” level of Great Britain’s health inequality affects the NHS. Experts warned because the health service provides an estimated 50 billion GBP per year for the effects of privation.
The increasing rates of child poverty have led to a growing burden on hospitals, whereby the NHS is comparable to the annual defense budget.
A high -ranking NHS personality said that in some of the poorest communities of Britain, they had a “medieval” level of untreated diseases, including people who “burst through their skin with cancer -like lumps”.
Another hospitals experienced a “shaken” trend in need of protection in need of protection, young and old, deliberately to ensure a stay in accommodation. The concern for rising rates of “Dickensian” diseases was also expressed, including scabies, rachitis and scarlet fever.
As part of a month -long examination of the guardian, the disclosures on the effects of deepening poverty are uncovered on a “broken” NHS.
Rachel Reeves, the Federal Chancellor, presented a real ban of 29 billion GBP for the daily NHS editions of 2029 up to 226 billion GBP-in of this time on almost half of all non-capital issues of the government.
Wes Streeting’s health secretary has undertaken to lead billions of pounds of additional NHS financing into bad areas by baning hospitals from transitions and revision of the formula for the decision of the degree of finance GP operations.
This Thursday he will present the 10 -year health plan of the government, which will include radical plans for converting the NHS from a service that mainly focuses on the treatment of diseases.
However, NHS Trust leaders warn that other key areas and long-thin plans for reforming social care and fighting the child’s poverty hospitals leave and GPS “handle the fallout”.
There is also discomfort, such as the ambition of Streeting, relocating health care from treatment to prevention zone, with the profound cuts to regional independent nursing executives, which are under pressure until the end of this year, up to 12,500 jobs.
Safran Cordery, deputy managing director of NHS providers who represents NHS Trusts, called for a cross-border approach to combat the effects of poverty on health.
“Prevention is better than healing, but after many years of lower investment and cuts, there is much more to achieve the government’s ambition a clearer focus on preventing the disease,” she said.
“Poverty has deteriorated through the cost of living and has contributed to increasing record demand for stretched psychiatric services, especially in children and adolescents.”
In a comprehensive report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) in 2016, it estimated that 29 billion GBP of the NHS editions were associated with poverty.
One of the authors of the report, Prof. Donald Hirsch from Loughborough University, said that the exact costs cannot become known today without repeating the study, but was probably much higher.
“We are now spending a lot more for the NHS than in 2014, and if it were due to poverty break, the costs would have increased to almost 50 billion GBP,” he said.
“In fact, it could be much higher because far more people have difficult difficulties, including hunger and poverty, which could have strengthened the connections between poverty and illness and thus higher health expenditure.”
Studies indicate that about a quarter of all expenses in acute hospital care and basic care can be attributed to stronger use of these services by people in poverty. At 50 billion GBP per year, the expenditure for health deprivation would be the defense budget and make about £ 1 of 10 GBP each, which the government spent on all public services.
A report by the Royal College of Physicians, which was published last week, estimated that air pollution that disproportionately affects the communities taken into account contributes to around 30,000 deaths per year and around 500 million GBP per week in NHS and economic costs.
Katie Schmuecker, the JRF’s main policy consultant, said: “Without an urgent commitment to combating deep poverty, no plan to improve public services can be successful and the NHS and the economy will continue to suffer.
“Difficulties are avoidable for people’s health and hold back our economy and costs all of us, treasure.”
According to Schmuecker, widespread deprivation had a “devastating” effect on the NHS and the economy. Studies have shown that those who live in poverty, become more sick and later have access to health care, which contributes to A&E registrations that are almost twice as high in the poorest groups and emergency instructions that are 68% higher.
Dr. Andy Knox, the reigning medical director of Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board, which includes some of the poorest areas of Great Britain, said that only “complete systemic change” in the approach of public health would contain the expansion of inequality.
“The situation in which we are in ourselves is urgent,” he said. “We have not created a healthy society, and especially for our most disadvantaged communities, this now has a deeply negative effect and exposes an enormous pressure on our health and care system.”
A report by the Health Foundation last year showed that the inequalities of the healthcare system are expected to continue in the next 20 years. People in the poorest areas are expected to be diagnosed earlier than people in the richest. According to the Office for National Statistics, life expectancy between these areas has grown across Great Britain since 2013.
Hugh Alderwick from the Health Foundation said that the government’s mission to combat poverty and its effects on health to be “missing” in action. He said that the pressure on the NHS would continue to grow without “sensible political measures to improve the social and economic conditions of people”.
A government spokesman said that the ministers are “determined to change people’s lives better, to help them out of poverty and to protect those who need the most urgently”.
The spokesman added: “As part of our change plan, we terminated a new package of 1 billion GBP to reform the crisis support and the expansion to free breakfast clubs, which increases the national minimum wage and supported 700,000 of the poorest families by introducing a fair repayment rate for universal credit lines.
“We also reform the NHS, so that it is there for everyone, regardless of who they are or where they live, and have run the ground to provide additional 3.6 million dates since July to shorten waiting lists.”
