The UK’s natural population could reach the point where deaths exceed births much earlier than expected, the Office for National Statistics has reported. The shift has profound implications for productivity, work, and spending on pensions, health and care.
The Commons’ health and social care committed warned this week that the NHS and social care are already “facing the greatest workforce crisis in their history”. Its MPs urged whoever is elected prime minister by the Conservative Party to come up with a plan. In health tech news, some big trusts picked big EPR, LIMS and imaging systems; but others saw major IT failures.
