For all the latest news from in and around Bolton, sign up for the free MyBolton newsletter The chief of Bolton’s hospital trust has called for more investment in early years, education, jobs and infrastructure after a report claimed health inequalities led to Greater Manchester’s pandemic death rate being 25 per cent higher than the national average.
Sir Michael Marmot found nearly four months more was wiped off male life expectancy in the North West last year than the national average.
His latest review found Covid ‘exposed and amplified’ inequality for Bolton and the rest of Greater Manchester with rates of mortality from Covid-19 a quarter higher than in England as a whole. READ MORE: Free town centre parking in Bolton to end as
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