The 20-Year Penalty: How the NHS's Biggest Health Gap Is Killing Patients Early

People with severe mental illness die 15 to 20 years earlier than the general population — not from their psychiatric conditions, but from preventable physical diseases the NHS is failing to catch. Rethink Mental Illness's analysis of NHS data reveals that adults under 75 with severe mental health problems are 4.8 times more likely to die before 75 than the general population. They're **6.3 times more...