feel cool tomorrow, temperatures below average for the time of year, but the sunshine should mitigate it a bit, sunshine in april has a little strength. then milder air pushing in from the south, so the weather will improve, lots of sunshine on saturday, just a few showers for eastern areas, turning a bit cloudierfor showers for eastern areas, turning a bit cloudier for northern ireland later in the day, but look at the temperatures. highs up to 15 cell c and it should get even warmer to that into next week, with dry and sunny weather on the this is carly s allotment, she uses it to grow food for people struggling to make ends meet. with new figures out today showing the escalating diabetes crisis, and recent analysis of life expectancy over seven decades showing the uk doing worse than all g7 countries except the usa, we ll ask are we sleep walking into a growing health crisis and what can be done about it? also tonight. elon musk announces this evening that blue tick user
they have to address their entire lives. their parents, as my colleagues have said,, they are perhaps just getting bread colleagues have said,, they are perhapsjust getting bread on colleagues have said,, they are perhaps just getting bread on the table, they are trying to do their job. they are literally working so hard just to exist that actually, very cheap food, that is what they have to do. that is what it demands. what the dr said about taking the health service to people, so supermarkets and so on, i wonder if there is also an issue, this is so big and so complex, professor, and so long term, that politicians who are maybe only looking a few years ahead to the next general election, they do not take the long term view, is that fair? i they do not take the long term view, is that fair? ., ~ ., they do not take the long term view, is that fair? is that fair? i don t know if that is that fair? i don t know if that is fair but is that fair? i don t know if that is fair but i
as a gp, i am seeing that patients who perhaps may have brought their children for their child immunisations are thinking twice we, as a gp. what is in this vaccination? so there is a key issue around trust, where people feel that the things that are important to them or the history behind them has been left behind. so they so there is great work we need to do as clinicians, as policymakers, to build back the trust at grassroots levels and begin to show people that we are there for them, that the policies we put in place are there for them, policies we put in place are there forthem, notjust policies we put in place are there for them, notjust by the words we speak, but the actions and resources we put behind that. we put behind that. professor marmot, would we put behind that. professor marmot, would you we put behind that. professor marmot, would you would - we put behind that. professor i marmot, would you would agree we put behind that. professor - marmot, would you woul
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including a ban on buy one get one free deals for foods high in fat, salt and sugar. labour supported that delay, suggesting a cost of living crisis was not the right time to introduce such measures. but when surveys asked the public whether they supported a delay in this ban, the result was pretty evenly split, even when you break it down by class. the ban is currently due in october. health inequalities in the uk, then, are entrenched and growing. they can t be fixed overnight, but which measures politicians are willing to take will determine how large the gap becomes. let s talk to sir michael marmot, who s director of the ucl institute of health equity. he led a government review on reducing health inequalities in 2010. and he revisited it in 2020. professor bobby duffy is director of the policy institute at king s college london. and dr chi chi ekhator, a south london gp who provides community services to try and tackle health inequalities. some pretty shocking facts and figures f