TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF BRITAIN’S HEALTH
OVER 70 YEARS OF THE NHS
The Office for National
Statistics and NHS in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland are inviting
the public to test their knowledge of how the nation’s health has improved over
70 years of the National Health Service through four online interactive charts.
The NHS has both evolved and devolved in the
70 years since its birth. Over this time there have been many improvements in
the health of the nation. A lot has changed; we are living longer, infectious
diseases such as measles and polio have reduced and cancer survival rates are at
record levels. But do the public know by how much?
The four interactive drawing tools, built
using data collected by the ONS, allow website visitors to draw the missing
information predicting:
· The increase in life expectancy over 70 years;
·
A decrease in infant mortality;
·
The number of babies born, vast majority
delivered by the NHS;
·
The number of people aged 65 and older.
The
charts give the latest figure and visitors to the NHS70 website have to tap and
drag the dot on each graph and draw the rest of the chart back to 1948 (or the
earliest year available), then use the "Show me the answer" button to
see how they did.
England and Wales:
Period Life expectancy
Live births
Infant mortality
Population aged 65 and older (Great
Britain)
Northern Ireland:
Live births
Scotland:
Period life expectancy
Live births
Infant mortality
Population aged 65 and older (Scotland)
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