Regional health gap 'is 30 years'

A north-south healthy life gap of more than three decades exists
between communities in England and Wales, government figures show.

TOP HEALTHY LIFE EXPECTANCIES
Didcot Ladygrove, Oxfordshire - 86 years
Rissingtons, Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire - 84.6
Moreton Hall, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk - 84.2
Littlebury, Saffron Walden, Essex - 83.8
Shaftesbury Underhill, Dorset - 83.7
Gerrards Cross South, Buckinghamshire - 82.9
Greystoke, Penrith, Cumbria - 82.8
The Lower Tarrants, North Dorset - 82.2
Belgravia and Knightsbridge, London - 82
Adenham East, Hertfordshire - 82

LOWEST HEALTHY LIFE EXPECTANCIES
Middlehaven, Middlesbrough - 54.9 years
Rhyl West, Denbighshire - 55.7
Everton, Liverpool - 56.3
Gurnos, Merthyr Tydfill, South Wales - 56.6
Vauxhall, Liverpool - 56.7
Granby, Liverpool - 57.4
Ardwick, Manchester - 57.5
Aberbargoed, Caerphilly, South Wales - 57.6
Beswick and Clayton, Manchester - 57.6
Smithdown, Liverpool - 57.7