A key annual health survey might come to an end with a funding cut and this is what health experts have hit out at.

The Office for National Statistics conducted the General Lifestyle Survey annually for various departments of the government.

Various aspects are covered in this survey on which information is given and these are drinking habits and smoking and more.

Cutting down the NHS funding for the survey has been proposed and this simply means that it would come to an end.

There are various interviews that take place annually and about 15,000 households are contacted for this. People are asked questions on their drinking and smoking habits and how do they use how do they used health services.

Other issues like income, education and housing and employment are also looked at in the survey.

Lives of UK residents are looked into and this survey gets their lives clearer to government departments.

It was started in 1971 and since then every year this survey is carried out. Experts get helped in seeing the trends and patterns of the residents through this survey.