Chief Medical Officer's Report Part 2: The Health of the Nation

The second section is a report card which presents the surveillance data on the health of the nation. The report contains a summary of the data. These can interpret trends to inform how we continuously improve our management of health and disease


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While the overall age-standardised rate of death due to cancer has decreased, the actual number of deaths has increased: this largely reflects an increase in older age groups within the population, and the fact that cancer is a relatively common disease among the elderly.

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