In the former NHS South Sefton CCG area, there were 1,035 cancers diagnosed in 2020 – 96 fewer than the year before, when there were 1,131 diagnoses, according to the latest figures from NHS Digital.

Source: https://www.liverpoolworld.uk/your-merseyside/sefton/nearly-100-missing-cancer-diagnoses-in-south-sefton-in-2020-as-fewer-found-at-early-stage-3990365

Meanwhile, hospital admissions for eating disorders are rising among children and young people, analysis of NHS Digital data shows.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11592197/Children-needing-NHS-treatment-mental-health-problems-soars-39.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

NHS Digital figures show 575 of 1,870 Year 6 pupils measured in Knowsley were classed as obese or severely obese in 2022-23.

Source: https://www.liverpoolworld.uk/your-merseyside/knowsley/childhood-obesity-rates-in-knowsley-worse-than-before-coronavirus-pandemic-4405523

Nine per cent of pupils aged 11 to 15 vape — the highest rate logged since records began in 2014 — according to NHS Digital data released in September.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11780851/The-appalling-vape-shop-displays-sentencing-British-children-life-time-illness.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

Separate figures from NHS Digital show approximately 830 working days at Wirral University Teaching Hospital were lost due to Covid-19.

Source: https://www.liverpoolworld.uk/your-merseyside/wirral/wirral-university-teaching-hospital-staff-took-fewer-sick-days-in-december-than-a-year-before-as-absences-across-england-spike-4172093