{"id":555564,"date":"2026-04-28T19:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/555564\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T19:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:28:09","slug":"more-uk-deaths-than-births-expected-every-year-from-now-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/555564\/","title":{"rendered":"More UK deaths than births expected every year from now on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The growing ageing population &#8220;will add to pressure on the NHS, the state pension and the wider public finances&#8221;, said Stuart McDonald, head of longevity and demographic insights at pension consultants LCP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;For the NHS, the challenge is not simply a larger population, but a larger population at ages associated with greater healthcare need.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;But for pensions, the projections will intensify an already difficult debate about whether people can realistically and fairly be expected to work longer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sarah Scobie, Deputy Director of Research at the Nuffield Trust, warned end-of-life care services are &#8220;ill-prepared for an increase in deaths as the population ages overall&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Hospital care accounts for over 80% of public expenditure on health care for people in the last year of life, and most of that is spent on emergency care,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The growing ageing population &#8220;will add to pressure on the NHS, the state pension and the wider public&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-555564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}