Biography
Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill spoke in a Lords debate on NHS services for patients with allergies in December 2024, highlighting the rising prevalence of allergies affecting approximately one-third of the UK population. She emphasised that serious food allergies among young children more than doubled between 2008 and 2018, describing allergy as potentially "a life sentence" and characterising it as an "epidemic which is going unnoticed."
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“…UK are among the highest in the world, especially among the young, yet specialist services delivered by paediatric allergists are available to only a minority of those with serious disease. There is a postcode lottery of care.”
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- Children's health131st of 1572.0
- NHS & care workforce/staffing236th of 3022.0