Readers respond to The Guardian article by Aditya Chakrabortty about the decline in healthy life expectancy in the UK, including the author that inspired that article, Alan Walker, Emeritus professor of social policy and social gerontology, University of Sheffield.

You can read their responses in full at the following link:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/09/we-need-a-national-plan-to-tackle-the-health-inequity-that-is-killing-people?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other