Professor John Robertson OBA

Once again, I’m grateful to Brenda Robb for finding this and researching it for us.

From BBC UK today but ignored by BBC Scotland, the above and:

The figures show that 1,142 deaths were in England, an increase of 16% on the year before.

London had the highest total number of deaths, but the largest increases were in Nottingham, where the number of deaths doubled to 22, and in Exeter, where they more than doubled from eight to 21.

In Northern Ireland, deaths increased by more than a third between 2023 and 2024, to 211. Wales saw a small annual decrease, from 97 to 90.

In Scotland there was an 18% reduction overall from 206 to 168. The Museum of Homelessness found that deaths in both Glasgow and Edinburgh fell by around 40%. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg9ygnj44no

National leadership?

From The BIG ISSUE today:

More than 43% of the UK population now live in a Marmot Place, a local area which has committed to deliver on principles which will improve health equity.

There is no national health inequalities strategy in England, nor any requirement for places to tackle health inequalities in this collaborative, place-based way – so it is so encouraging to see this locally-led grassroots movement involving places across the political spectrum.

There are more than 60 Marmot Places, which cover large regions such as Greater Manchester and Cheshire and Merseyside, the whole of Scotland and towns such as Luton and Kings Lynn, rural areas, coastal regions, large cities, islands, wealthier places with pockets of deprivation and large cities suffering the effects of deindustrialisation.In Scotland, where national leadership and involvement is evident, it has been enormously beneficial in formulating new ways to take national action and encourage local action.

https://www.bigissue.com/life/health/what-are-the-eight-marmot-principles/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1759901231

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