7,971 source-backed health facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 80 of 80.
“his experience of seeing Louise suffer in the NHS through at least 12 major operations”
“That's because most insurance companies will only pay for a 24-hour hospital day after a routine delivery.”
“about 5,000 patients a year.”
“ELKIN was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis twenty years ago.”
“Hackney had ten times the infant mortality of Kingston upon Thames.”
“ELKIN died of heart failure on Wednesday, May 31, 1995.”
“infant mortality in London was twice that of other European cities.”
“He died of complications from the AIDS virus on Friday, at age 49.”
“I experienced three horrible years of suffering post-natal depression.”
“In it, MONETTE told the story of his "beloved" friend and lover's two year struggle with AIDS.”
“more than one in 20 adults struggle to read the shortest and simplest of sentences”
“Another one in eight has the reading skills of an average 11-year-old”
“the obstetric department secretary who is running three weeks behind on letters and case summaries.”
“The mere transfer of genes has been possible since the 1970s;”
“But within a few hundred years, cloning and genetic manipulation could be almost literally childish – perhaps carried out by schoolchildren, just as they now routinely isolate DNA.”
“In Africa as a whole, it is thought that up to a million children die every year from the disease.”
“A recent article trumpeted the figures: NHS Direct dealt with 177,000 calls over Christmas alone.”
“The running costs alone for last year were estimated at £31 million.”
“Step into an NHS hospital and you will find hordes of the homeless and elderly, squirming as white-lipped workers try to prioritise their treatment. For potentially fatal cases, the waiting time is two hours; for the walking wounded, five …”
“NHS Direct is a new 24-hour nurse-led telephone advice and information service . . . In particular, if you feel that there is something wrong with you . . . an NHS Direct nurse will be able to reassure you.”
“was launched by Alan Milburn, the Health Secretary, in December of last year.”
“this habit kills 120, 000 smokers a year in Britain”
“30 per cent of all cancer deaths”
“a quarter to a half of all the people in the world are puffing away at cigarettes”
“It turned out there were almost as many registered charities devoted to Aids in Britain as there were people with Aids.”
“In 1997 a small London schoolboy, visiting an open farm in Hertfordshire, contracted the bacterium E-Coli, the source of which was traced back to a goat. Children under the age of five are more likely than older children or adults to suffe…”
“This case prompted Professor Hugh Pennington of Aberdeen University to recommend that children under the age of five should not be taken on visits to farms.”
“children under five should not visit farms”
“Each of the 37 frail, elderly residents”
“87-year-old Dorothy Greenshields”
“one in six will eventually need long-term care”
“one in four 85 year olds develop dementia”
“according to a National Audit Office study, at least £4 billion”
“more than 40 million people without health insurance in the US”
“(one fifth)”
“the confidence that he will not have to lie in a hospital trolley for 48 hours, should he shatter his thick skull as he stumbles out at closing time”
“Foucault, the French philosopher who was an early casualty of Aids (he died in 1984)”
“They shouldn’t smoke for about an hour after massage.”
“we will reduce the proportion of people reporting the use of heroin and cocaine by 25 per cent by 2005 and 50 per cent by 2008”
“we will cut the number of people smoking by 1.5 million by 2010”
“will rise to the European Union average by 2006.”
“The UK spends about 6.8 per cent of GDP on health and Europe overall spends nearly 8 per cent.”
“a spending rise of nearly one-fifth relative to GDP would be needed to catch up.”
“a rise of just one-twentieth from 1991 to 1997”
“If national income grows by an average of 2.25 per cent a year, as the government “cautiously” assumes, that means it will grow by 13.5 per cent over six years.”
“Health spending, then, will have to rise not by one-fifth but by one-third to reach the present EU average as a percentage of GDP.”
“the UK upped its health spending by 1.2 per cent of GDP, but the French and Germans both grew by around 2 percentage points.”
“If the NHS is spending a fifth less than it needs now and a third less than it will need to in six years, then no efficiency savings will compare to the impact of providing the missing billions.”
“a 20-year-old spell”
“By 2006, he pledged, UK health spending would be lifted to the average for the European Union.”
“Dr Ron Zimmern, a main government adviser on genetics, reportedly predicted that gene science would impinge “with devastating significance on clinical practice”.”
“There are an estimated 3.6 million HIV-positive South Africans.”
“A schoolteacher today in South Africa can look at a high school class and know that one-third of the pupils will be dead within ten years.”
“Now, in some South African ante-natal clinics, an infection rate of one in three expectant mothers is reported.”
“children from social class V are three times more likely to have a mental health problem than the offspring of social class I”
“and twice as likely as those in social class II”
“10 per cent of children from social class V have conduct disorders compared with 3 per cent from social class I”
“putting the proportion at only one in ten”
“one in five young people suffers from a mental health problem”
“The Sanjiu pharmaceuticals company had grown enormously, to dominate the market and develop a promising international line of Chinese herbal remedies”
“Wife-battery and domestic violence are common in Kenya. Police statistics show that on average ten women are battered every day by their spouses.”
“Last year 3,674 cases were recorded, which included marital rape to humiliante and oppress women.”
“a committee that made the unappetising projection that as many as 25 per cent of adults in Britain may be obese by 2010.”
“Ethel Timberlake remembers her mother sucking the ends of the cotton through the shuttle – “kissing the shuttle” they called it – the kiss of death, for she died of emphysema at 50.”
“Although one of its election pledges was to shorten waiting lists, the government spent its first year in office presiding over a waiting-list growth of more than 100,000.”
“When August’s waiting-list figures were published, Dobson was able to announce that they were “falling faster than at any time in the history of the health service”.”
“And this week Dobson could claim that the September drop was the largest monthly fall ever recorded.”
“In Scotland, 92 per cent of non-emergency patients are admitted after no more than a three-month wait.”
“In these specialities, fewer than two-thirds of routine patients are admitted within three months, so they will get a disproportionate amount of the extra money.”
“For example, the government wants to publish outcome measures for the NHS – it proposed 15 such measures last summer.”
“Better than waiting lists to be sure, but still with the same bias towards hospital surgery: 11 of the 15 proposed measures concern hospital surgical specialities, which have a virtual monopoly on waiting-list statistics and lend themselve…”
