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In north-west London, four A&Es have been downgraded, with none for the boroughs of Hammersmith & Fulham, Ealing and Brent – a population of 750,000 or a city the size of Leeds.
Coursework has been downgraded, with a move to more traditional end-of-course exams, and schools have been discouraged from allowing multiple resits by excluding all but the first attempt from school league tables.
At the public meeting at a local school, many claimed services were being downgraded with patients having to travel to Carmarthen for treatment - a round-trip of several hours from some parts of mid Wales.
Indeed, S&P warned that the EFSF's credit rating would be downgraded along with the countries that backstop the facility.
Likewise, 25 478 patients would be downgraded from high risk with NICE Framingham to low risk with QRISK2, with a mean observed risk of 13.36% (10.72% to 16.00%).
Nearly half the patients assessed as high risk with NICE Framingham (79 592 (45%)) would be downgraded to low risk with QRISK2.
In total, 85 010 patients (71% men, 29% women) would be reclassified (8%), of whom 57 199 men (67%) and 13 566 women (16%) would be downgraded from high risk with the Anderson Framingham to low risk with QRISK.
