Health
Sick Britons avoid hospitals, driving up deaths at home during the pandemic – Sydney Morning Herald
The sick are shunning Britain’s hospitals and nursing homes, so deaths at home from heart attacks, cancer and other illness have soared.
Deaths in private homes for men suffering heart diseases are up 25.9 per cent in England while heart-related deaths in hospitals decreased by 22.4 per cent. There has also been a 53.5 per cent increase in deaths at home from prostate cancer.
Deaths from dementia and Alzheimer’s disease among women are 75.0 per cent above average in private homes in England but 40.6 per cent lower in hospitals.
The National Health Service was not overwhelmed during the first outbreak but there was a waiting tim…
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