Projected patterns of illness in England

This report supports policy makers prepare for the future by looking at patterns of illness over the next two decades. The analysis lays out the potential scale and impact of the growth in the number of people living with major illness as the population ages, assigning scores to 20 conditions based on how likely the illness is to affect people’s use of primary care and emergency health services and likelihood of death. The report projects that 9.1 million people will be living with major illness by 2040, 2.5 million more than in 2019.