The NHS in England has missed a raft of targets - is this down to extreme levels of demand from patients?
Older people are more likely to be living with long-term conditions for which there are no cures, notably dementia. They often also have multiple health problems, which can add to the cost and complexity of their care.
The NHS says there are also pressures from high levels of obesity - which is linked to a wide range of health problems - in the population. "If you pinch the wrong part of the system problems can surface elsewhere and it's often in A&E - for example complications with diabetes or worsening mental health."It is not possible to compare current NHS figures with what happened in the latter years of the 20th Century - because the data is not comparable.In its early years, diseases such as smallpox, tuberculosis, and scarlet fever posed a problem. In the 1950s, there were as many as 8,000 polio cases a year.
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