According to this HSCIC report, rates of alcohol consumption are higher in less deprived areas than in more deprived areas. Here’s a quote from the 2012 piece: “Men and women in the least deprived areas were more likely to have drunk alcohol than those in more deprived areas. In the[…]
Read More »I thought I’d do a summary of some different releases from HSCIC (Health and Social Care Information Centre) which gathers data from across the NHS. What’s notable is the breadth of different issues as the IMD is used to analyse relationships between health and deprivation across the board. ‘Maternity: Twice[…]
Read More »A pilot study in the Royal Naval Medical Service journal found that Army recruits tend to have worse teeth than Navy recruits, and that RAF recruits have the best teeth of the three services. In fact RAF recruits had on average more than half the tooth decay of Army recruits.[…]
Read More »Here’s a BBC article on NHS statistics collected by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) about hospital admissions for animal bites. The key finding is the headline that rates of hospital admissions for dog bites are three times higher in the most deprived 10% of areas of England[…]
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