It turns out that essentially two factors contribute to the amount of time a given physician spends with open or pending claims: the likelihood of a claim in any given year, and the overall length of the legal process.

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They are worst off in the North West, where the average length of a healthy life is only 64.4 years, and overall life expectancy is 73.4 years.

BBC: Northerners suffer more ill health