
UK vs European energy prices, falling excess deaths and is 5 grams of cocaine a lot?
More or Less: Behind the Stats
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Is the NHS Changing?
In cash terms, Great Britain does have more expensive electricity than most countries in Europe. But if your yardstick is how much we spend out of our disposable income, it looks a bit cheaper. We decided to go back to the person who first helped us make sense of this data, Stuart McDonald, friend of the programme and an actuary at LCP Analytics. I asked him to remind us how bad the end of 2022 really was, starting with data from England. In recent weeks, excess deaths have been declining, and after some truly shocking figures from December, waits for emergency NHS treatment have been shorter. The numbers that we've talked about so far are offering in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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