{"id":782,"date":"2016-06-18T08:04:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T07:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/?p=782"},"modified":"2016-07-05T16:27:32","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T15:27:32","slug":"nhs-failings-cause-60000-avoidable-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/nhs-failings-cause-60000-avoidable-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS Failings Cause 60,000 Avoidable Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">NHS failings caused thousands of avoidable deaths in 2013, with a third of\u00a0deaths amongst\u00a0Britons under the age of 75 occurring needlessly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">A EuroStat report, which uses figures from the European Union statistics office, was recently published comparing healthcare across Western Europe. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">The UK performed worse than almost all other Western European nations. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">It revealed that over 60,000 patients in the UK suffered an avoidable death in 2013. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">More than 30,000 of these were due to cardiovascular disease, including heart disease and stroke. This is compared to 15,000 deaths in France, which has a similar sized population.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Preventing avoidable deaths in patients under the age of 75 was particularly poor, with the UK being the worst performer other than Ireland, Greece and Malta.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u201cToo slow\u201d<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Cancer survival rates were also highlighted, with the UK\u2019s five-year survival rate falling below the European average in nine of the most common cancers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Professor Karol Sikora, former chief of the World Health Organisation cancer programme, said: \u201cIf you have a symptom of something that might be cancer, on the Continent it gets investigated in a week.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u201cHere [the UK] it can take months. It\u2019s just too slow. Such delays can mean the difference between life and death.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Expert legal advice<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">If you would like to speak to a solicitor about suing the NHS for substandard medical care, please get in touch with us today.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NHS failings caused thousands of avoidable deaths in 2013, with a third of\u00a0deaths amongst\u00a0Britons under the age of 75 occurring needlessly. A EuroStat report, which uses figures from the European Union statistics office, was recently published comparing healthcare across Western Europe. The UK performed worse than almost all other Western European nations. It revealed that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[867,866,71,61,868],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-avoidable-deaths","tag-eurostat-report","tag-health-in-europe","tag-nhs-failings","tag-nhs-performance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}