Tag: health and wellbeing
Improving ambulance services in England
In 2018, ambulance trusts across England answered around 10 million emergency calls and responded to seven million separate incidents. Only one in ten of these calls were life-threatening, but six in ten resulted in a patient being conveyed to A&E. NHS ambitions focus on providing safe care closer to home.…
Mapping the future of malaria in Africa
According to World Health Organisation, nearly half of the world's population is at risk of malaria. In 2019, 94% of global cases of malaria and deaths caused by malaria were in Africa. Concerted national efforts have succeeded in cutting malaria mortality by 44% globally over the past decade, but some…