The Institute of Health Equity has released analysis of Eurostat’s life expectancy data, which suggests the UK is heading towards becoming the Sick Man and Woman of Europe.

The analysis was presented in a comment piece in The Times newspaper.

Read the published version of the comment piece in The Times at this link (article is behind a paywall). 

Finding the data:

Source: Eurostat : http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?dataset=hlth_hlye&lang=en