Original vitamin D researcher
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MHRA has indeed become an enabler for the pharmaceutical interests
We feel compelled to conclude that the MHRA has indeed become an enabler for the pharmaceutical interests or patient safety
industry, with patient safety no longer being its primary concern.
Medicines regulator failed to flag Covid vaccine side effects,
and must be urgently investigated.
All-party parliamentary group, (APPG) on Pandemic Response and Recovery,
believe MHRA were aware of heart and clotting issues,
in February 2021,
but did not highlight the problems for several months
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/27/mhra-covid-vaccine-side-effects-mps-all-party-parliamentary/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/05/esther-mcvey-covid-inquiry-lockdown-files-matt-hancock-baroness/
https://www.medscape.co.uk/viewarticle/uk-medicines-regulator-serious-risk-patient-safety-2024a10003cd?ecd=wnl_ret_240220_mscpmrk-GB_daily_etid6322343&uac=188254MN&impID=6322343&sso=true\
https://appgpandemic.org/news/mhra-letter-health-select-committee
We write regarding serious concerns about the approach of the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA),
to patient safety and also problems in a system that,
far from protecting patients,
continues to put them at serious risk.
Primodos, sodium valproate and pelvic mesh
We also believe that the MHRA is at the heart of these far wider endemic failings,
and that those cited in this letter merely represent the tip of a sizeable iceberg of failure.
The Yellow Card Scheme
The Yellow Card Scheme … is failing patients.
Hospital admissions are caused or complicated by ADRs (16.5%),
while analysis of in patient stays has shown that 15% of patients experience one or more ADRs, with half being either definitely or possibly avoidable.
Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review Review, report First Do No Harm:
We heard about a system that cannot be relied upon to identify promptly significant adverse outcomes arising from a medication or device,
it is clear that there is gross under-reporting,
and our complaints systems are both too complex and too diffuse to allow early signal detection.
Under-reporting hinders the ability to detect signals and assign causation.
The cost to patient safety of such an unreliable system can be measured in the needless fatalities,
the considerable burden on the quality of life for survivors,
and a £2.2 billion strain on NHS England alone.
Only one in 12 patients are aware that they can report a suspected ADR.
A 2006 systemic review
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16689555/
The rate of under-reporting of adverse events was, on average, 94% and possibly as high as 98%,
meaning possibly only two in every 100 ADRs were reported to the MHRA.
For example, a survey of UK pharmacists suggested they lack interest in, and do not promote, direct patient reporting.
Only 19% of the respondents displayed a poster promoting the Yellow Card Scheme in their pharmacy.
2023, analysis of anticoagulants
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37269441/
Reporting of gastrointestinal bleeds
North West of England Hospital Trust recorded 12,013 bleed-related emergency admissions.
Of these, 1,058 were taking DOAC anticoagulants.
Only six DOAC Yellow Card reports (0.56% of the possible) were made by the Trust during the period.
Conflicts of Interest and Transparency
From FDA to MHRA: are drug regulators for hire?
https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj.o1538
The regulator-industry revolving door
Proportion of covid-19 vaccine committee members that declared financial COIs
UK, HMRA, 32%
Australia, TGA, 50%
March 2022, Dame June Raine, Chief Executive of the MHRA
agency’s transition from “the watchdog to the enabler”
does little to quell suspicions of conflicts and the implications for patient safety and cannot be overlooked.
MHRA’s responses to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests.
Between 2008 and 2017,
only 41% of requests were successful.
Since 2019, the number of requests has seen a substantial increase from 609 to 1,609 in 2021,
likely due to concerns about the regulation of Covid-19 vaccinations,
with 76% of these requests answered outside the 20 working days statutory response time.
Often exemptions were applied or vague or evasive responses were received.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
from regulatory approval to post marketing pharmacovigilance the MHRA has a history of failing patients
The MHRA does not attempt to assess or compare the safety of different vaccines
MHRA “does not hold a process for the investigation and follow up of individual Yellow Card reports”
MHRA only followed up some 54% of deaths reported in yellow cards as possibly linked to exposure to one of the Covid-19 vaccines.
Two months later, 7 May, (2021) the MHRA withdrew AZ for under 40s, but only after further needless deaths
What conclusions are we to draw about the seeming unwillingness of a regulator, largely funded by those it regulates, to disclose data to the same public it professes to protect?
We feel compelled to conclude that the MHRA has indeed become an enabler for the pharmaceutical industry, with patient safety no longer being its primary concern.
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The 4 Lighthouse declarations
https://lighthousedeclaration.org/declaration/
Ros Nealon-Cook, a psychologist from Australia, had her license suspended for sounding the alarm about the harms to children from government pandemic policy. Ros has joined forces with a number health professionals from around the world who were similarly censored and silenced. Together, they have created The Cape Byron Lighthouse Declaration to raise awareness about the widespread propaganda and censorship of expert scientific opinion. You can read and sign the declaration here: www.lighthousedeclaration.world – adding your signature will take less than a minute.
In the coming months, the Lighthouse Declaration team will host a series of webinars and roundtables to further expand the conversation on these critical issues.
Ros and the Lighthouse Declaration team, can be contacted through their social media channels or via the website:
Twitter: @Lighthouse_Dec
Twitter: @rosalina_nc
Facebook: LighthouseDeclaration
Instagram: @lighthouse_dec
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Change in death stats
Massive APPARENT reduction in excess deaths in 2023 as UK ONS change how they calculate excess deaths.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/causesofdeath/articles/estimatingexcessdeathsintheukmethodologychanges/latest
OECD, UK
https://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?queryid=104676
Excess deaths in 2022, 52,514 (9.26%)
OECD, UK, weeks 1 – 44, 2023
Excess deaths, 49,389 (9.44%)
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/office-for-health-improvement-and-disparities/about/statistics
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Early heart disease deaths rise to 14-year high
https://www.bhf.org.uk/what-we-do/news-from-the-bhf/news-archive/2024/january/early-heart-disease-deaths-rise-to-14-year-high
Over 100,000 excess deaths involving cardiovascular conditions in England since February 2020
Heart and circulatory diseases cause around a quarter of all deaths in England – over 140,000 deaths each year or one death every four minutes.
In 2022
Over 39,000 people in England died prematurely of cardiovascular conditions,
heart attacks, coronary heart disease and stroke,
an average of 750 people each week.
It is the highest annual total since 2008.
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Vitamin D deficiency pandemic
Detailed conversation with Professor David Anderson, one of the seminal research doctors on vitamin D
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COVID Psychological Manipulation: Unpacked
Ros Nealon-Cook, a psychologist from Australia, had her license suspended for sounding the alarm about the harms to children from government pandemic policy. Ros has joined forces with a number health professionals from around the world who were similarly censored and silenced. Together, they have created The Cape Byron Lighthouse Declaration to raise awareness about the widespread propaganda and censorship of expert scientific opinion. You can read and sign the declaration here: www.lighthousedeclaration.world – adding your signature will take less than a minute.
In the coming months, the Lighthouse Declaration team will host a series of webinars and roundtables to further expand the conversation on these critical issues.
Ros and the Lighthouse Declaration team, can be contacted through their social media channels or via the website:
Twitter: @Lighthouse_Dec
Twitter: @rosalina_nc
Facebook: LighthouseDeclaration
Instagram: @lighthouse_dec
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White clots and sudden death
Thank you to Mr. John O’Looney of Milton Keynes Family Funeral Services, https://www.mkffs.co.uk/
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Autopsy after myocarditis
With Dr. Peter McCullough and Nicolas Hulscher (paper authors).
Autopsy findings in cases of fatal COVID-19 vaccine- induced myocarditis
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ehf2.14680
Myocarditis autopsy paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ehf2.14680
VAERS myocarditis paper: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20420986241226566
preprint autopsy paper: https://zenodo.org/records/8120771
Spike protein detoxification paper: https://www.cureus.com/articles/207654-clinical-approach-to-post-acute-sequelae-after-covid-19-infection-and-vaccination#!/
We will also cite the Nakahara paper and the Krausen paper
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37724969/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37758751/
Nic’s linkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-hulscher-3683b1274/
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Covid vaccines are safe
Watch on parliament TV, about 13.30 pm, Wednesday 31st January 2024
https://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/5bfca061-5df1-4f4e-9e9b-92ca5e2c5e5a?agenda=True
Read the officially recorded text in Hansard
https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2024-01-31/debates/FB2712E7-763B-4DF4-8158-AC8CDA3DBE78/Engagements
Andrew Bridgen
(North West Leicestershire) (Ind)
Q3. More than two decades ago, the then Prime Minister, Tony Blair, misled this House by promoting and endorsing the Post Office Horizon IT system as perfect, protecting the large corporation that created it and causing untold harm, damage and misery to innocent people. Can the current Prime Minister think of anything he has promoted, in partnership with huge businesses, as safe and effective that has ultimately harmed the British people? Will he use this opportunity to correct that safe and effective statement, or will he choose the same line as Tony Blair and sit back, do nothing and let the misery continue to pile up?
The Prime Minister
We have been clear that the Horizon scandal is a terrible miscarriage of justice, and we are doing everything we can to make it right. To what the hon. Member was more broadly insinuating, let me be unequivocal from this Dispatch Box that covid vaccines are safe.
Apologies and correction.
In this video I wrongly say the scabies mites (Sarcoptes scabiei) are insects, they are not and are correctly classified as Arachnida. This is because the adult mites have 8 legs, so are in the same group as spiders. Insects of course have 6 legs.
They are 0.2 to 0.45 mm in size, not 10 times bigger as I said, always important to put the decimal point in the correct place.
I hope to resume normal service in the next video.
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Decisions, overwhelmingly wrong
Direct link to parliament TV, https://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/5e1f14d2-72b3-488f-a53c-fc94fee92dac
Link to Hansard full transcript, https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2024-01-16/debates/152B485D-812D-43CC-9D25-C2B651564810/ExcessDeathTrends?highlight=westminster%20hall#contribution-46059AFE-9A03-472B-9364-0BF972E2E7D8
Miriam Cates
(Penistone and Stocksbridge) (Con)
I will be brief, because it is clear that there is far more demand to speak in the debate than there is time. That shows that we absolutely need a longer debate; we need a debate on the Floor of the House, because it is not just Members present who want to speak, and members of the public have shown enormous interest.
I will not go over the excellent points that have been made and the data that has been shared. We know we have a problem in this country with excess deaths, particularly among younger people and particularly from cardiovascular disease. That, in itself, is a huge challenge. We need medical experts and statisticians to address those issues—I am not qualified to do so.
What I will say is this: lockdown changed everything. Our response to covid changed everything. Just as we look back on different periods of history—before the war; before the industrial revolution—I believe we will look back at before and after lockdown. Lockdown has changed our economy and how we relate to each other. It has changed our health and our understanding of children’s development.
The conditions under which those decisions were made—decisions that were overwhelmingly wrong, in my opinion, although I do not blame any individuals, given the pressure they were under—have not changed. The conditions under which we suspended the precautionary principle, ignored the fact that interventions may cause harm, suspended the importance of children’s education, suspended the safeguarding of children, suspended the need for medical trials and suspended all sorts of safeguards that have stood society in good stead for a long time have not changed.
The conditions in Government, the media and wider society under which those decisions were made have not changed because, unfortunately, we have not yet got to the heart of the matter. Why did that pressure come from the media? Why did we have to follow what other countries were doing? Why were we obsessed with particular points of data, such as deaths from covid, rather than considering the wider impact on society?
My concern about the covid inquiry is that it is asking all the wrong questions. It is concerned with who swore at whom on WhatsApp, and not the wider conditions under which decisions were made. When, several Education Secretaries ago, the former, former, former Secretary of State for Education, my right hon. Friend the Member for South Staffordshire (Sir Gavin Williamson), stood up in the House of Commons and said that he would close schools, I remember, as a mother, shouting at the television, “Don’t do it! Don’t do it!”. I could see the impact it would have—not just on my own children, but across all the wider components of society. Society is like a big machine; we cannot just take out one part and assume that the rest will continue to operate. We have seen that clearly over the past three years.
We must address the reasons why these decisions were made. We cannot do that in three minutes each—we must have a longer debate.
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Official inquiry, tittle tattle
Direct link to parliament TV, https://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/5e1f14d2-72b3-488f-a53c-fc94fee92dac
Link to Hansard full transcript, https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2024-01-16/debates/152B485D-812D-43CC-9D25-C2B651564810/ExcessDeathTrends?highlight=westminster%20hall#contribution-46059AFE-9A03-472B-9364-0BF972E2E7D8
Philip Davies
(Shipley) (Con)
As we have seen in data published by the ONS, non-covid excess deaths continue to run higher than they should. People are dying unexpectedly across all age groups, particularly at home. Since the restrictions in March 2020, there have been 110,000 excess deaths in people’s own homes. In the week ending 22 December 2023, deaths at home were 11% higher than the five-year average. In the first 11 months of 2023, over 21,000 excess deaths took place at home, which is roughly one every 25 minutes.
Last month an article in The Lancet, co-authored by the head of mortality analysis at the ONS, stated that although
“the causes of these excess deaths are likely to be multiple”,
ONS data did show some clear trends—in particular, the “largest relative excess deaths” since the pandemic occurred in young and middle-aged adults, with the number of cardiac deaths happening outside hospitals the most elevated. In other words, young and previously healthy people are dying at home from cardiac-related events, and we do not know why. The article concludes:
“Timely and granular analyses are needed to…inform prevention and disease management efforts.”
Let us be clear: this is not a new phenomenon. Experts have been raising concerns about excess deaths since as early as 2021. I remember seeing an interview with Professor Carl Heneghan, professor of evidence-based medicine at Oxford University, where he called for an investigation into the 75,000 excess deaths at home between March 2020 and October 2021. Some 90% of those excess deaths were not covid-related, but related to things such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Many of those deaths could have been prevented had people not been dissuaded from seeking care, because they were told by the media and the Government to stay at home and protect the NHS. Perhaps they tried to get help but were dismissed by a health service concerned with only one disease.
The calls for an investigation went ignored then, just as they are ignored now. Perhaps the covid inquiry, as others have said, should make better use of Professor Heneghan’s time by asking about this topic rather than the tittle-tattle that it seems to revel in. The pertinent question is: why did we lock down at all? That is what I think did the biggest damage.
We can all speculate on the cause of excess deaths, which are clearly happening, from withdrawal of healthcare during lockdown, the increased risk of sedentary lifestyles and alcohol consumption, the impact of the pandemic and related restrictions on NHS staffing levels, increasing NHS waiting times, lack of access to emergency care, covid-19 vaccine adverse reactions or another unknown cause—perhaps a mix of all of the above. Until the Government commit to a robust and independent investigation, we will not know for sure and the speculation will keep going. That is why the Government need an investigation rapidly.
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High heart deaths
Our world in data excess mortality
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores-average-baseline?country=~JPN
Early heart disease deaths rise to 14-year high
Over 100,000 excess deaths involving cardiovascular conditions in England since February 2020
Heart and circulatory diseases cause around a quarter of all deaths in England,
Over 140,000 deaths each year,
or one death every four minutes.
Healthcare costs relating to heart and circulatory diseases, £8.3 billion each year.
The cost of cardiovascular disease to the wider economy in England,
(including premature death, disability and informal costs),
is estimated to be £22 billion each year.
Latest NHS England figures show that the number of people waiting for cardiac care at the end of November in England was 402,208.
The heart care waiting list is 72% larger than in February 2020.
This is an increase of 169,000 people – enough to fill Wembley stadium nearly twice over.
In 2022
Over 39,000 people in England died prematurely of cardiovascular conditions,
heart attacks, coronary heart disease and stroke,
an average of 750 people each week.
It is the highest annual total since 2008.
Since 2020, the premature death rate for cardiovascular disease has risen year-on-year
This is the first time there has been a clear reversal in the trend for almost 60 years.
The BHF says more analysis is needed to understand what is driving the trend.
Dr Sonya Babu-Narayan, Associate Medical Director at the BHF and Consultant Cardiologist, said:
We are still seeing more people than expected die from cardiovascular conditions overall – more than any other disease group.
It’s clear to me that urgent intervention is long overdue.
In January 2023, the Government announced a Major Conditions Strategy to tackle the biggest drivers of ill health and early death in England
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Falsified or concealed data
Neale Hanvey
(Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath) (Alba)
Time is tight, so I will cut to the chase. I pay tribute to the hon. Member for North West Leicestershire (Andrew Bridgen) for his courage and determination on this important matter. I also challenge the right hon. Member for Knowsley (Sir George Howarth) on his assertion that these were so-called experts at that meeting. They are world-renowned experts in their field; that is just a matter of observable fact.
I want to focus on the safe use of novel mRNA agents and on concerns over their alleged role in driving excess deaths. I repeat a point that I have made previously in this place and directly with the Minister: any agent has the potential to cause harm or injury to the subject. For the avoidance of doubt, the position I have taken is based on decades of involvement in the management and delivery of clinical trials. Politicians who dismiss the data and emerging clinical evidence are acting in a wholly irresponsible manner, and posing a real threat to the duties of honesty and candour at the heart of good clinical practice. If substantiated, the concerns surfacing around falsified or concealed data are the most serious that I can imagine.
I have worked in the same institution as Professor Dalgleish, and his credentials are impeccable.
Addressing this matter is necessary because we are talking about the standards on which good clinical practice, or GCP, is based. GCP is not about a nice bedside manner or knowing what treatment to prescribe; it is a set of internationally recognised ethical and scientific requirements, which must be followed when designing, conducting, recording and reporting on clinical trials that involve people, and have their origin in the declaration of Helsinki.
The rights, safety and wellbeing of trial subjects are the most important consideration, which should prevail over interests of science and society, including commercial or political interests, and I will conclude with a reflection on that important principle. The foundation of good clinical practice is under threat. In their December 2023 pathology research and practice paper on gene-based covid-19 vaccines, Rhodes and Parry gave the following warning:
“Pandemic management requires societal coordination, global orchestration, respect for human rights and defence of ethical principles. Yet some approaches to the COVID-19 pandemic, driven by socioeconomic, corporate, and political interests, have undermined key pillars of ethical medical science.”
None of these clinical experts are quacks or conspiracy theorists. As the Government said so often during the pandemic, we must follow the science
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Proven lab leaks
Accidentally on purpose
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/accidentally-on-purpose
WEF prepares for Disease X
https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2024/sessions/preparing-for-a-disease-x/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Laboratory-acquired infections and pathogen escapes worldwide between 2000 and 2021
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(23)00319-1/fulltext
Laboratory-acquired infections (LAIs),
and accidental pathogen escape from laboratory settings (APELS),
are major concerns for the community.
A risk-based approach for pathogen research management,
within a standard biosafety management framework is recommended,
but is challenging.
due to reasons such as inconsistency,
in risk tolerance and perception.
Here, we performed a scoping review,
using publicly available, peer-reviewed journal and media reports,
of LAIs and instances of APELS between 2000 and 2021.
Laboratory-acquired infections (LAIs)
309 individuals, 94 reports for 51 pathogens.
Eight fatalities
2·6% of all LAIs
Neisseria meningitidis (n=3, 37·5%)
Yersinia pestis (n=2, 25%)
Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium (n=1, 12·5%)
Ebola virus (n=1, 12·5%)
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (n=1, 12·5%)
Accidental pathogen escape from laboratory settings (APELS)
16 APELS were reported
Bacillus anthracis (anthrax)
SARS-CoV
Poliovirus
Brucella spp (brucellosis zoonosis)
Foot and mouth disease virus
Influenza virus H5N1
Examples
the discovery of historical variola virus ampoules in cold storage during a move of laboratories at the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, MD, USA in July, 2014
the shipment of live anthrax cultures from US Department of Defense laboratories following incomplete inactivation
Lethal Infection of Human ACE2-Transgenic Mice Caused by SARS-CoV-2- related Pangolin Coronavirus GX_P2V(short_3UTR)
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.03.574008v1.full.pdf
SARS-CoV-2-related pangolin coronavirus GX_P2V can cause 100% mortality in human ACE2-transgenic mice,
potentially attributable to late-stage brain infection.
This underscores a spillover risk of GX_P2V into humans
https://www.biblegateway.com
Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make people kill each other. To him was given a large sword. (Revelation chapter 6, v 4)
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Excess child deaths, 8%
Direct link to parliament TV, https://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/5e1f14d2-72b3-488f-a53c-fc94fee92dac
Link to Hansard full transcript, https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2024-01-16/debates/152B485D-812D-43CC-9D25-C2B651564810/ExcessDeathTrends?highlight=westminster%20hall#contribution-46059AFE-9A03-472B-9364-0BF972E2E7D8
Full speech from Dr. Johnson
This is a very important debate and I will try to make my speech as short as possible. I congratulate the hon. Member for North West Leicestershire on raising this issue and on his determination to highlight the challenges that we are facing. On the one hand, we might have expected that the pandemic would shorten the lives of a number of our more frail citizens and thus have expected a fall in deaths post-pandemic, and we saw that. The ONS reported roughly 608,000 deaths in England and Wales in 2020, 586,000 in 2021, and 577,000 in 2022—that was higher than 2019 when there were about 531,000 deaths, so that does warrant further inspection. We expect a fluctuation year on year, and we also expect
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the total number of deaths to increase year on year as the population increases and ages. We therefore look at the five-year average, and currently we are using 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022 because of the outliers in 2020. Even then, it is unlikely that we will be exactly at the average, and we would expect some years to be higher or lower.
The ONS monthly mortality analysis shows that, in 2022, there were 32,000 more deaths than the five-year average, and in January to July 2023, there were 21,809 more. That equates to an annualised figure of around 37,000, but the figures appear to stop in July 2023. Would the Minister advise as to why the data series has been discontinued? It would be helpful if it were not. However, those are raw numbers and we must be cautious because, as the population ages and increases, so will the number of deaths. The ONS therefore uses the age-standard mortality rate, which has fluctuated month on month but is actually down for both 2022 and 2023 when compared with the five-year average. Overall, when adjusted for age and population size, the number of deaths is not excessive, given what we would expect.
We need to look further at the trends on age and the causes of death to see a fuller picture. Others will no doubt speak of rising cardiovascular disease in men, the late presentation of cancers or the rise in liver disease, but as a consultant paediatrician, I would like to focus on children. The National Child Mortality Database collates data on children’s deaths from nought to 18. Its latest bulletin from March 2023 shows that there were sadly 3,743 deaths to the end of that month, which is an increase of 8% on the previous year. Would the Minister comment on what investigation she is doing into the cause of that increased mortality and what is being done to prevent further deaths? The purpose of the child death overview panel is to investigate those deaths, but the average investigation is taking 392 days, with less than half completed in 12 months and a significant fall in the number being completed in 12 months. What is the Minister doing to improve that process?
One particularly distressing feature of child death data is that suicide or deliberate self-harm was a primary cause of death of children between 10 and 17 years, and looking at the data, it is getting much worse with children between 10 and 14. I understand that the Government are aware of those figures and are investing in mental health for children and improving online safety. I would be grateful if the Minister elaborated further on the steps they are taking to support children and prevent further tragedies.
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