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An extra 110,000 patients were diagnosed with cold-related illnesses at A&E last year, Labour's shadow health secretary Andy Burnham will say as he blames the Government for failing to rein in energy bills.
Mr Burnham will reveal that there were 109,000 more emergency admissions made across English hospitals in 2012/13 where circulatory or respiratory diseases were identified as the primary diagnoses. The figure represents a 10% increase on 2009/10, the year before the coalition came to power and a series of wide-sweeping NHS reforms were put in motion.
The former health secretary will say the figures provide tangible proof of "the effect on A&E of the cost-of-living crisis and rising energy bills".
http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/national/cold-related-a-e-admissions-slammed-1-6414204
Mr Burnham will reveal that there were 109,000 more emergency admissions made across English hospitals in 2012/13 where circulatory or respiratory diseases were identified as the primary diagnoses. The figure represents a 10% increase on 2009/10, the year before the coalition came to power and a series of wide-sweeping NHS reforms were put in motion.
The former health secretary will say the figures provide tangible proof of "the effect on A&E of the cost-of-living crisis and rising energy bills".
http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/national/cold-related-a-e-admissions-slammed-1-6414204