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Tories: Death

Grenfell: Tory minister urged against including sprinklers in fire safety rules

More than 300 NHS nurses have died by suicide in just 7 years

Attempted suicides by disability benefit claimants more than double after introduction of fit-to-work assessment

Surge in prison deaths & record levels of assaults and self-harm

Homeless people's deaths up 24% over five years

3,000 Britons dying each year because they can't heat their homes

Malnutrition deaths in hospitals in England and Wales at highest level for a decade

Health and social care spending cuts since 2010 are linked to nearly 120,000 excess deaths in England

Universal credit linked to suicide risk

Between December 2011 and February 2014 the equivalent of about 90 people a month died after being found fit for work by DWP

Universal credit leaves food bank with empty shelves: 'We just can't keep up. The conditions people are living in are scary. People are basically being left to rot"

Patients dying after having to wait because A & E too busy

Male suicide: Calls to helpline rise nearly 300%

Work Capability Assessment for chronically sick and disabled people -
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@Alston_UNSR said Austerity could easily have spared the poor if the political will had existed to do so. Resources were available to the Treasury that could have transformed the situation of millions living in poverty, but the political choice was fund tax cuts for the wealthy

And the United Nations found the government had committed grave and systematic violations of disabled people's human rights.

Windrush: at least 11 people wrongly deported from UK have died

Suicides in immigration detention centres kept secret by Home Office

More than 17,000 people died while waiting to hear whether their claim for disability benefit had been successful

DWP has carried out 60 peer reviews following the death of a “customer” since February 2012. A peer review is triggered when suicide or alleged suicide is associated with a DWP activity

University analysis has found that Government efforts to reduce the number of people claiming disability benefit have driven 590 people in England to suicide and have put 725,000 more on antidepressants.

In 2017 600 people died sleeping rough in England & Wales, average age: 47

Newborn baby death rate has increased for those with the lowest incomes. Infant mortality has gone up in all income groups – except the most affluent

430 doctors have died by suicide in just 4 years

40 people with a profound learning disability or autism have died in assessment and treatment units over the last 2.5 years, including nine aged under 35

Suicides amongst Firefighters & Police has doubled: blamed on cuts, redundancies, unpaid overtime & high levels of stress

107% rise in teenage suicide in London

Britain's murder rate is at the highest level in a decade

Alcohol related deaths have risen steadily since 2015, highest since 2008 among women

1in 4 emergency services workers has thought about ending their lives

The growing funding crisis in adult and children hospices is forcing 1 in 3 to cut end of life treatment.

Councils spent £750m less on homelessness-related activity than they did in 2008-9 due to Government cuts - homelessness has soared and 600 people died on the streets