Theresa "MAY" not build a better Britain.

[Stickman]

Guess the Beeb, Sky and co couldn't be arsed headlining this...

 

Landmark study links Tory austerity to 120,000 deaths

 

 

Government is accused of 'economic murder'

 

The Conservatives have been accused of “economic murder” for austerity policies which a new study suggests have caused 120,000 deaths.

 

The paper found that there were 45,000 more deaths in the first four years of Tory-led efficiencies than would have been expected if funding had stayed at pre-election levels.

On this trajectory that could rise to nearly 200,000 excess deaths by the end of 2020, even with the extra funding that has been earmarked for public sector services this year.

Real terms funding for health and social care fell under the Conservative-led Coalition Government in 2010, and the researchers conclude this “may have produced” the substantial increase in deaths.

The paper identified that mortality rates in the UK had declined steadily from 2001 to 2010, but this reversed sharply with the death rate growing again after austerity came in.

From this reversal the authors identified that 45,368 extra deaths occurred between 2010 and 2014, than would have been expected, although it stops short of calling them "avoidable".

Based on those trends it predicted the next five years - from 2015 to 2020 - would account for 152,141 deaths - 100 a day - findings which one of the authors likened to “economic murder”.

The Government began relaxing austerity measures this year announcing the end of its cap on public sector pay rises and announcing an extra £1.3bn for social care in the Spring Budget.

Over three years the additional funding for social care is expected to reach £2bn, which Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said was “patching up a small part of the damage” wrought by £4.6bn cuts.

The study, published in BMJ Open today, estimated that to return death rates to their pre-2010 levels spending would need to increase by £25.3bn.

The Department of Health said “firm conclusions” cannot be drawn from this work, and independent academics warned the funding figures were “speculative”.

However local councils who have been struggling to fund care with slashed budgets urged the Government to consider the research seriously.

Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth said the Government must match Labour's spending pledges in the Autumn Budget.

Per capita public health spending between 2001 and 2010 increased by 3.8 per cent a year, but in the first four years of the Coalition, increases were just 0.41 per cent, researchers from University College London found.

In social care the annual budget increase collapsed from 2.20 per cent annually, to a decrease of 1.57 per cent.

The researchers found this coincided with death rates which had decreased by around 0.77 per cent a year to 2010, beginning to increase again by 0.87 per cent a year.

And the majority of those were people reliant on social care, the paper says: “This is most likely because social care experienced greater relative spending constraints than healthcare."

It also notes that a drop in nurse numbers may have accounted for 10 per cent of deaths, concluding: "We have found that spending constraints since 2010, especially public expenditure on social care, may have produced a substantial mortality gap in England.”

The papers’ senior author and a researcher at UCL, Dr Ben Maruthappu, said that while the paper “can’t prove cause and effect” it shows an association.

And he added this trend is seen elsewhere. “When you look at Portugal and other countries that have gone through austerity measures, they have found that health care provision gets worse and health care outcomes get worse,” he told The Independent.

One of his co-author’s, Professor Lawrence King of the Applied Health Research Unit at Cambridge University, said it showed the damage caused by austerity

"It is now very clear that austerity does not promote growth or reduce deficits - it is bad economics, but good class politics," he said. "This study shows it is also a public health disaster. It is not an exaggeration to call it economic murder.”

The Department of Health stressed that no such conclusion could be drawn. A spokesperson said: “As the researchers themselves note, this study cannot be used to draw any firm conclusions about the cause of excess deaths.

“The NHS is treating more people than ever before and funding is at record levels with an £8bn increase by 2020-21. We’ve also backed adult social care with £2bn investment and have 12,700 more doctors and 10,600 more nurses on our wards since May 2010.”

And independent academics added that it is hard to prove cause and effect with this kind of study even if the underlying assumptions may be correct. 

Professor Martin Roland Emeritus Professor of Health Services Research, University of Cambridge said: “This study suggests that a change happened to cause deaths to stop declining around 2014. This is likely to be a correct finding. However, the link to health and social care spending is speculative as observational studies of this type can never prove cause and effect."

Cllr Izzi Seccombe, chairman of the Local Government Association’s community wellbeing board, said: “We would urge government to review the evidence behind this analysis. If correct, it would clearly reinforce the desperate and urgent need to properly fund social care

Mr Ashworth, responding to the study, said: “This shocking mortality gap is a damning indictment of the dire impact which sustained Tory cuts to our NHS and social care services have had on health outcomes across the nation.

“Ahead of the Budget, this appalling news must serve as an urgent wake up call to the Prime Minister. She must match Labour’s pledge to deliver an extra £6 billion for our NHS across the next financial year to ensure the best possible quality of care is sustained for years to come.”

 

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/tory-austerity-deaths-study-report-people-die-social-care-government-policy-a8057306.html

 

 

 

[Moctezuma]

 

Guess the Beeb, Sky and co couldn't be arsed headlining this...

 

So predictable, invariably the former will do some lip service thing late at night so they state they have had it covered.

[razor]

 

Guess the Beeb, Sky and co couldn't be arsed headlining this...

 

Landmark study links Tory austerity to 120,000 deaths

 

 

Government is accused of 'economic murder'

 

The Conservatives have been accused of “economic murder” for austerity policies which a new study suggests have caused 120,000 deaths.

 

The paper found that there were 45,000 more deaths in the first four years of Tory-led efficiencies than would have been expected if funding had stayed at pre-election levels.

On this trajectory that could rise to nearly 200,000 excess deaths by the end of 2020, even with the extra funding that has been earmarked for public sector services this year.

Real terms funding for health and social care fell under the Conservative-led Coalition Government in 2010, and the researchers conclude this “may have produced” the substantial increase in deaths.

The paper identified that mortality rates in the UK had declined steadily from 2001 to 2010, but this reversed sharply with the death rate growing again after austerity came in.

From this reversal the authors identified that 45,368 extra deaths occurred between 2010 and 2014, than would have been expected, although it stops short of calling them "avoidable".

Based on those trends it predicted the next five years - from 2015 to 2020 - would account for 152,141 deaths - 100 a day - findings which one of the authors likened to “economic murder”.

The Government began relaxing austerity measures this year announcing the end of its cap on public sector pay rises and announcing an extra £1.3bn for social care in the Spring Budget.

Over three years the additional funding for social care is expected to reach £2bn, which Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said was “patching up a small part of the damage” wrought by £4.6bn cuts.

The study, published in BMJ Open today, estimated that to return death rates to their pre-2010 levels spending would need to increase by £25.3bn.

The Department of Health said “firm conclusions” cannot be drawn from this work, and independent academics warned the funding figures were “speculative”.

However local councils who have been struggling to fund care with slashed budgets urged the Government to consider the research seriously.

Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth said the Government must match Labour's spending pledges in the Autumn Budget.

Per capita public health spending between 2001 and 2010 increased by 3.8 per cent a year, but in the first four years of the Coalition, increases were just 0.41 per cent, researchers from University College London found.

In social care the annual budget increase collapsed from 2.20 per cent annually, to a decrease of 1.57 per cent.

The researchers found this coincided with death rates which had decreased by around 0.77 per cent a year to 2010, beginning to increase again by 0.87 per cent a year.

And the majority of those were people reliant on social care, the paper says: “This is most likely because social care experienced greater relative spending constraints than healthcare."

It also notes that a drop in nurse numbers may have accounted for 10 per cent of deaths, concluding: "We have found that spending constraints since 2010, especially public expenditure on social care, may have produced a substantial mortality gap in England.”

The papers’ senior author and a researcher at UCL, Dr Ben Maruthappu, said that while the paper “can’t prove cause and effect” it shows an association.

And he added this trend is seen elsewhere. “When you look at Portugal and other countries that have gone through austerity measures, they have found that health care provision gets worse and health care outcomes get worse,” he told The Independent.

One of his co-author’s, Professor Lawrence King of the Applied Health Research Unit at Cambridge University, said it showed the damage caused by austerity

"It is now very clear that austerity does not promote growth or reduce deficits - it is bad economics, but good class politics," he said. "This study shows it is also a public health disaster. It is not an exaggeration to call it economic murder.”

The Department of Health stressed that no such conclusion could be drawn. A spokesperson said: “As the researchers themselves note, this study cannot be used to draw any firm conclusions about the cause of excess deaths.

“The NHS is treating more people than ever before and funding is at record levels with an £8bn increase by 2020-21. We’ve also backed adult social care with £2bn investment and have 12,700 more doctors and 10,600 more nurses on our wards since May 2010.”

And independent academics added that it is hard to prove cause and effect with this kind of study even if the underlying assumptions may be correct. 

Professor Martin Roland Emeritus Professor of Health Services Research, University of Cambridge said: “This study suggests that a change happened to cause deaths to stop declining around 2014. This is likely to be a correct finding. However, the link to health and social care spending is speculative as observational studies of this type can never prove cause and effect."

Cllr Izzi Seccombe, chairman of the Local Government Association’s community wellbeing board, said: “We would urge government to review the evidence behind this analysis. If correct, it would clearly reinforce the desperate and urgent need to properly fund social care

Mr Ashworth, responding to the study, said: “This shocking mortality gap is a damning indictment of the dire impact which sustained Tory cuts to our NHS and social care services have had on health outcomes across the nation.

“Ahead of the Budget, this appalling news must serve as an urgent wake up call to the Prime Minister. She must match Labour’s pledge to deliver an extra £6 billion for our NHS across the next financial year to ensure the best possible quality of care is sustained for years to come.”

 

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/tory-austerity-deaths-study-report-people-die-social-care-government-policy-a8057306.html

 

 

 

 

 

Yes, but Trident...

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Yes, but Trident...

 

Which costs a fortune and doesn't even function without fault half the time. Wonder if they are still running that on XP. 

[Anubis]

Rumors that the computer porn allegation may be about to take a chunk out of Damian Green's shitty little arse. Several publications have reported that the material found was extreme and, while legal at the time, would now not be under legislation since enacted. Also rumors he's shifting his "I dinna' have any porn on ma computer, captain" position.

[razor]

Rumors that the computer porn allegation may be about to take a chunk out of Damian Green's shitty little arse. Several publications have reported that the material found was extreme and, while legal at the time, would now not be under legislation since enacted. Also rumors he's shifting his "I dinna' have any porn on ma computer, captain" position.

 

The Crime and Immigration Act, 2009 made it illegal to possess images featuring acts which threaten life, cause serious injury to a person’s sexual organs or depict sex with animals or a corpse.

 

'I merely fell against the keyboard, your honour...."

 

Obviously he is innocent until proven otherwise, but the question has to be asked, Who would vote for him in an election?

[PestiRed]

The Crime and Immigration Act, 2009 made it illegal to possess images featuring acts which threaten life, cause serious injury to a person’s sexual organs or depict sex with animals or a corpse.

 

'I merely fell against the keyboard, your honour...."

 

Obviously he is innocent until proven otherwise, but the question has to be asked, Who would vote for him in an election?

Would laugh my arse off if it turned out to be the long lost photo of Cameron fucking a severed pig’s head

[Anubis]

To be honest, the subsequent legislation is a red-herring. It was legal at the time so that's not an issue. Having it on your work computer is the real issue - how many of us would survive that? Pretty much only the self-employed methinks.

[Anubis]

Matt Thoms

@TrickyJabs

 

120,000 UK victims of Tory austerity 'economic murder', about the size of the population of Chester. @BBCNews has decided not to report it because they were 'advised' the academic authors on BMJOpen were not a creditable source. Yet they still use Guido Fawkes as a source. #120k

 

Matt Thomas

@TrickyJabs

 

BBC were advised not to run "120k austerity deaths" article by the Science Media Centre.

SMC's CEO is Fiona Fox. Who, incidentally, has no scientific qualifications, denied the Rwandan genocide & covers up evidence against GM foods.

In 2013 she was awarded an OBE by the Tories...

[VladimirIlyich]

 

Matt Thoms

@TrickyJabs

 

120,000 UK victims of Tory austerity 'economic murder', about the size of the population of Chester. @BBCNews has decided not to report it because they were 'advised' the academic authors on BMJOpen were not a creditable source. Yet they still use Guido Fawkes as a source. #120k

Matt Thomas

@TrickyJabs

 

BBC were advised not to run "120k austerity deaths" article by the Science Media Centre.

SMC's CEO is Fiona Fox. Who, incidentally, has no scientific qualifications, denied the Rwandan genocide & covers up evidence against GM foods.

In 2013 she was awarded an OBE by the Tories...

So much for being more trustworthy than Sky!

[Scooby Dudek]

Unbiased as always. I am surprised they don't call themselves Fair and balanced.

[cloggypop]

@JolyonMaugham: Would you like Parliament to debate whether Theresa May should disclose any offshore assets? Of course you would! Sign here and RT. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/204653

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

Obviously the fundamental aspect of law that is innocent until proven guilty applies to Green.

 

But, if he is sacked from the cabinet by May for possessing this porn and for lying about it, questions should be asked about why his no longer being suitable for a cabinet role shouldn't also extend into him no longer being suitable to be an MP.

 

But, I think we all know the reason why that won't happen....

 

*cough.....slender, purchased at the tax payer's expense, majority.....cough*

[magicrat]

Excellent article in the Guardian that shows how powerless this Government is to protect our democracy, 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/19/my-fear-and-fury-in-the-eye-of-the-russia-leave-storm?CMP=share_btn_tw

[AngryOfTuebrook]

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Philip Hammond appears to have successfully thrown a dead cat on the table.

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/philip-hammond-latest-chancellor-no-unemployed-people-annual-budget-jobless-a8063416.html

 

Everyone is up in arms about him saying "there are no unemployed" - even though he can quite reasonably claim that that is a misrepresentation of his point, taking his words out of context.  Meanwhile, nobody is talking about anything else he's saying or doing in the run-up to a Budget.

 

Well played, Chancellor.  Well played.

[Rico1304]

 

Matt Thoms

@TrickyJabs

 

120,000 UK victims of Tory austerity 'economic murder', about the size of the population of Chester. @BBCNews has decided not to report it because they were 'advised' the academic authors on BMJOpen were not a creditable source. Yet they still use Guido Fawkes as a source. #120k

Matt Thomas

@TrickyJabs

 

BBC were advised not to run "120k austerity deaths" article by the Science Media Centre.

SMC's CEO is Fiona Fox. Who, incidentally, has no scientific qualifications, denied the Rwandan genocide & covers up evidence against GM foods.

In 2013 she was awarded an OBE by the Tories...

Is this the Fiona Fox who was in the Revolutionary Communist Party?

[Anubis]

Is this the Fiona Fox who was in the Revolutionary Communist Party?

 

No, it's Fiona Fox of the Ascot Foxes.

[cloggypop]

Just Googled her. She looks like this apparently and hangs out with hedgehogs.

 

[Strontium]

Is this the Fiona Fox who was in the Revolutionary Communist Party?

That's the one.

[razor]

Is this the Fiona Fox who was in the Revolutionary Communist Party?

 

Oh, you do still read this thread, then?

 

Where have you been for the past few weeks - not one line as more and more of the tissue-thin fabric of this diabolical government unravels. 

 

So tough to defend, you can only chuck in a little distracting question?

[Rico1304]

Oh, you do still read this thread, then?

 

Where have you been for the past few weeks - not one line as more and more of the tissue-thin fabric of this diabolical government unravels.

 

So tough to defend, you can only chuck in a little distracting question?

Ha ha I expected this hours ago.

 

I don’t feel the need to defend everything that the Tories do because I don’t agree with everything they do. I’m not in a cult you see. I vote for them mainly because Labour are more likely to introduce policies that would fuck up my job. As mentioned before I’d vote Labour if they went full anti-Brexit.

 

Does make me laugh though that Fox is made out to be a Tory shill

[Strontium]

Oh, you do still read this thread, then?

 

Where have you been for the past few weeks - not one line as more and more of the tissue-thin fabric of this diabolical government unravels. 

 

So tough to defend, you can only chuck in a little distracting question?

 

Have I missed something? Why would it be Rico's job to defend the government?

[Anubis]

Ha ha I expected this hours ago.

 

I don’t feel the need to defend everything that the Tories do because I don’t agree with everything they do. I’m not in a cult you see. I vote for them mainly because Labour are more likely to introduce policies that would fuck up my job. As mentioned before I’d vote Labour if they went full anti-Brexit.

 

Does make me laugh though that Fox is made out to be a Tory shill

She's working for an organisation part-funded by the Daily Mail. If she ever was a communist (and I have no idea if it's the same woman you mentioned, not do I have any inclination to look) then I think she's moved on.

[Creator Supreme]

Tony Parsehole was a communist once, he's now at the other end of the shitpole!