Healthcare policy

The EU’s outgoing health chief reflects on three decades in Brussels and how life has got steadily better. But he worries citizens are now forgetting the benefits of science. That could threaten recent medical advances, he says 

An alliance with outcomes measurement body ICHOM intends to accelerate the push towards value-based care. The aim is to square the circle between the budget squeeze facing healthcare systems and paying for medical innovation coming through the pipeline

An early death under age 75 is 20 per cent more likely in the north than the south of England according to research led by Manchester University, which shows there 14,333 more premature deaths in the north in 2015 and 1.2 million more early deaths in the north from 1965 to 2015