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Over the three years studied there were nearly 22, 000 excess deaths in total.
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That these excess deaths were avoided is a humanitarian triumph that ought to receive far more attention than it does.
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He said the number of excess deaths at these trusts alone over the past 10 years amounted to "a bit over 20, 000".
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For the lowest risk patients, they estimated 9 excess deaths.
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On Tuesday, the Healthcare Commission report revealed that between 2005 and 2008 there were 400 excess deaths at the hospital - although it was impossible to say whether these had all been caused by bad care.
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Indur Goklany, a much-published scholar on the consequences of global warming policies, recently calculated that in 2010 alone, diversion of grain to biofuels (like ethanol) caused nearly 200, 000 excess deaths in the developing world because of increased prices.
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According to the World Health Organization, solid fuel use causes 1.6 million excess deaths per year globally, especially among women and children, while waterborne disease is one of the leading global killers, ending the lives of over 3 million annually again, many of them young children who lack access to clean and safe water supplies.
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Liberal Democrat AM William Powell urged the Welsh Government to put measures in place to increase the take-up of the seasonal flu vaccine to prevent one of the main causes of excess winter deaths.
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They called on the assembly government to address these problems by developing an action plan to reduce excess winter deaths and also suggested putting a comprehensive plan in place to ensure that at risk groups receive the flu vaccine.
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