{"id":6719,"date":"2018-07-31T08:28:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T08:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/?p=6719"},"modified":"2022-09-18T21:02:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T21:02:35","slug":"the-health-crisis-2010-to-2018-acclimatisation-to-a-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/?p=6719","title":{"rendered":"The health crisis 2010 to 2018: acclimatisation to a disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the eight years since the May 2010 general election, the health of people living in the United Kingdom has faltered.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; max-width: 700px;\" title=\"Audioboom player\" src=\"\/\/embeds.audioboom.com\/posts\/6952147-the-health-crisis-2010-to-2018-acclimatisation-to-a-disaster\/embed\/v4?eid=AQAAAA0YYFvTFGoA\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At first the only evidence came from surveys in which people started to say in greater numbers that their health was getting worse.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5651\" style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5651\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5651\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/Health_decline_graphs-724x1024.png\" alt=\"Trends in UK self-reported health\" width=\"605\" height=\"856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/Health_decline_graphs-724x1024.png 724w, https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/Health_decline_graphs-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/Health_decline_graphs-768x1087.png 768w, https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/Health_decline_graphs.png 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trends in UK self-reported health<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then they started dying a little earlier than before, and then a lot earlier. By early 2018 we were seeing slowdowns in health improvements not experienced since at least the 1890s.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4911\" style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4911\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4911\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/chart-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/chart-1.png 585w, https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/chart-1-300x182.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quality and Clinical Risk Committee Paper \u2013 NHS England \u2013 October 2014<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In some areas of the country life expectancy began to fall. It then fell for all the poorest of infants born in the country:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6603\" style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6603\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6603\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/IMR_2016_NSSEC-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/IMR_2016_NSSEC-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/IMR_2016_NSSEC-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/IMR_2016_NSSEC-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/IMR_2016_NSSEC-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/IMR_2016_NSSEC.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6603\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Infant mortality rate (95% confidence interval) by socio-economic classification 2008-2016. Link here:<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, whenever any suggestion was made that central government austerity and health policies might had an adverse impact on the health of the nations of the UK, these suggestions were always (and without exception) dismissed out-of-hand by the department of health media representatives as being preposterous.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6540\" style=\"width: 857px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6540\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6540\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/neonatalaOctober2017.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"847\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/neonatalaOctober2017.png 847w, https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/neonatalaOctober2017-282x300.png 282w, https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/neonatalaOctober2017-768x816.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 847px) 100vw, 847px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6540\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neonatal mortality rankings, European Union countries, 1990 to 2015<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In this talk the story is told, some of the evidence presented and the question raised as to who in government did not know. Who might have known and did not care. And who knew, cared, but thought all this was a price worth paying for what they really wanted to happen to health and other public services. To privatise a service first you have to run it down.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6612\" style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6612\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6612\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/fig1-1024x469.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/fig1-1024x469.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/fig1-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/fig1-768x352.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/fig1.jpg 1804w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 1. Trends in life expectancy at birth, England and Wales, 1980\u2013present (Source: Office for National Statistics).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From a talk given by Danny Dorling on July 30th 2018 at the \u000bLaunch of the Socialist Health Association Oxfordshire branch. Barton Community Centre, Oxford. The talk begins with a discussion of this news story:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6720\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6720\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/PrivateEye.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/PrivateEye.jpeg 216w, https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/PrivateEye-115x300.jpeg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6720\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Details of Nicola Blackwood&#8217;s new role with private health care firm &#8220;Push Doctor&#8221;, Private Eye No. 1475, July 27 2018, p.15.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the eight years since the May 2010 general election, the health of people living in the United Kingdom has faltered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9147,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6719\/revisions\/9147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}