postcode lottery

noun

a situation in which the standard of medical care, education, etc, received by the public varies from area to area, depending on the funding policies of various health boards, local authorities, etc

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"It works when the infrastructure is in place, when there are officers who know about rural crime, but it can feel like a postcode lottery. �� we want is consistency of that structure," he said.

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Craig Murray, chair of BIOS, says it is a hard condition for parents to spot early, and that it is a "postcode lottery" for families on whether they are offered screening or not.

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Trading standards officials said they were particularly worried about young people getting injections, because finding practitioners who checked for the minimum age of 18 was a "postcode lottery".

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He said "schools face shortages of experts like educational psychologists and speech and language therapists, and a postcode lottery in accessing additional money from cash-strapped local authorities for pupils with the greatest needs - while parents are having to take councils to tribunal to get the places they want for their children due to a lack of capacity".

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Ms Hunter hoped the book would "highlight the postcode lottery" that determined the care that women received.

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