Government action needed to avoid 12,000 extra heart attacks and strokes
Print 7 March 2021 Imogen Blake
The pandemic could cause at least 12,000 extra heart attack and strokes in England over the next five years without bold Government intervention, according to a think tank’s new analysis.
The findings give further weight to our call for the Government to provide a clear plan and enough investment to address the significant backlog of heart care.
Around 470,000 fewer new prescriptions of preventative heart and circulatory disease medications like statins were issued in England during the pandemic, according to the research from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and healthcare consultancy Carnall Farrar (CF).
Thousands of Britons are needlessly dying from heart conditions after 470,000 missed out on lifesaving medicines last year, a damning report will reveal this week.GPs issued 1.42 million new
And, in the three months leading up to November, data shows that redundancies among 25-34 year olds are five times higher than the same period last year, at 16.2 per 1,000.
Hospitality, which has a higher proportion of younger workers, has unsurprisingly been hit hardest by Covid restrictions as the virus forced restaurants and pubs to close.
And, with over 4.5 million people on the furlough scheme, millions of jobs still hang in the balance.
Furthermore, recent Universal Credit figures, which many young people are relying on to pay the bills, show that over 20 million Brits relying on it will be in financial hardship by May.
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