Deaths from heart failure in the 15 weeks from week ending March 24th 2023 to the end of June 2023 were 27% higher than the level expected for the same period in 2020. Why?
The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities has produced the data for England. They show that from week 12 to week 26 of 2020 there were expected to be 16,752 heart failure deaths. Whereas in 2023 from week 12 to week 26 17,825 deaths were expected. For some reason we expect 6% more people to die of heart failure now than we did three years ago, even more of a surprise when you consider that the ‘pandemic’ was supposed to have cut a swathe through the ‘dry tinder’! In the event 21,222 people died from heart failure in England during this period in 2023.
Figure 1 shows weekly deaths from heart failure since week 12 of 2020. You can see, with or without Covid linked deaths, there has been a significant and sustained increase.
Read more: The Failings of the NHS Can’t Explain the Dramatic Rise in Heart Failure Deaths
