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• Residents of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea can be expected to live longer than the national average life expectancy. Male residents live to 83.7 and women to 87.

• However some boroughs have the shortest life expectancy of England, for example Islington and Newham have an average life expectancy of 76.6 and Tower Hamlets with just 76.66 

London faces a number of particular health challenges:

• There is a wide variation in teenage pregnancy rates accross the london boroughs 
• London has the highest rates for new diagnosis of chlamydia 
• It also accounts for approximately 40% of TB cases in the UK