Hastings Avoidable Deaths Rate

[Derek Jempson]

This is a rather disturbing report from the Office for National Statistics.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yue8KkL84RbiaiUUOKwQoxyPAhYTlhQOSwQkAz-AQGc/edit#gid=463899561

It shows that Hastings has the thirteenth highest death rate nationally from "avoidable causes". The report links this to poverty and deprivation. The twelve towns/cities with higher death rates are all in the Midlands, or further north.

The report suggests that average incomes in Hastings are just 30% of either the national average earnings, or the highest earnings (not sure which).

[Supervillin]

Scandalous.

IRT to the income column - that's the "rank" of deprivation. It means we're only 30 places away from being the most deprived place in the UK (30th worst out of 211).

[Supervillin]

I just looked at it again and realised that this is the avoidable death rate for MEN in Hastings. The rate for women in Hastings is about half that!

[Derek Jempson]

It's not good to be male sometimes!