Number of deaths linked to freezing winter increases by 30% to 31,000 as temperatures fell to record lows

Freezing temperatures last winter led to 31,000 deaths, new figures show. The number of 'excess winter deaths' in England and Wales rose dramatically by 29 per cent compared with the previous year. Campaigners condemned the figures as a 'national scandal' as ministers scrambled to hire doctors and nurses to prevent a crisis in the NHS this winter.

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