People in poverty twice as likely to need hospital for lung conditions – report

Living in poverty with a lung condition doubles the risk of an emergency hospital admission, according to NHS England figures analysed by charity Asthma + Lung UK. According to the data, there were 48,060 emergency respiratory hospital admissions in the least deprived ten percent of local areas in 2021/22, compared to 95,846 in the most … Continue reading People in poverty twice as likely to need hospital for lung conditions – report