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Health Foundation report also predicts people in poorest areas will be three times more likely to die by the age of 70A record 3.7 million workers in England will have a major illness by 2040, according to research.On current trends, 700,000 more working-age adults will be living with high healthcare needs or substantial risk of mortality by 2040 – up nearly 25% from 2019...

Isolation and lack of health insurance also correlate to reduced mammogram rates for breast cancer Women who are low-income, socially isolated and lack health insurance are far less likely to be up-to-date on mammograms, a breast cancer screening tool experts said is critical to reducing breast cancer deaths, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).Breast cancer is...

Exclusive: Joseph Rowntree Foundation finds widening gulf between demand for tax cuts and reality for millions strugglingJeremy Hunt has been told Wednesday’s budget risks condemning Britain to a second “lost decade” for living standards that would leave working families £1,900 a year worse off.The chancellor enters a crunch week under pressure from his party to deliver a package of pre-election tax cuts, but analysis...

Former PM criticises ministers for ‘moral outrage’ of ‘systematically shredding’ social security systemGordon Brown: Grinding child poverty calls for anger – and a plan Britain is in the throes of a hidden poverty “epidemic”, with the worst-affected households living in squalor and going without food, heating and everyday basics such as clean clothes and toothpaste, the former UK prime minister Gordon Brown has said.Brown...

In Mansfield, the council could not afford the funding needed by a service that is vital to one of the UK’s most deprived areasIn the end it was just £27,000. That was as much as the local district council said it could scrape together, but it was still a 50% cut in core grant funding and ultimately not enough to prevent Mansfield Citizens Advice...

Robert Jenrick’s resignation leads to reprieve until new year, as charities warn of more people being made homelessThe Home Office has been forced to pause its eviction of refugees from hotels on the eve of Christmas following evidence that “unacceptable” numbers are ending up destitute and sleeping on streets.Former immigration minister Robert Jenrick had, according to sources, refused to countenance any pause as part...