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@Anon 14:46

I'd be curious to see the data you base your statements on.

Whilst it is well-established that most healthcare resources are *consumed* in the first 18 months and last 5 years of life, this is not necessarily an indicator that these resources are *needed*. I've seen good arguments made that ageing and death are currently associated with a considerable degree of un-needed interventions.

Allocating funds to deprived areas has a long history of noticable changes on health status - the investment in proper sewer systems for deprived urban areas in the 19th Century comes immediately to mind.

Your proposed urban/rural dichotomy does not agree with available data; for example, the recent Index of Multiple Deprivations shows that Fernhill in the New Forest has a much higher level of health deprivation than the City of London.