Health Inequality

Frailty rates increased rapidly among older people during the years of government austerity policies in the 2010s, a new study has found.

General practices in the most deprived areas of England should be collectively benefiting from an additional funding of £18.6 million a year from PCNs to improve the health of patients.

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has launched a new training resource to help physicians tackle health inequality affecting their patients.

Cancer death rates vary hugely across different regions of England, with people living in some Northern cities roughly twice as likely to die from cancer before the age of 80 compared to some areas in London, according to new research.

People from the most deprived areas in England are up to twice as likely to wait for more than a year for elective treatment as people who lived in the most affluent areas, according to a report from the King’s Fund.

People from Black and minority ethnic backgrounds have poorer access to and outcomes from NHS psychotherapy services such as counselling and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), according to an independent review.

The government has announced it will open 160 community diagnostic centres by March 2024, a year earlier than planned.

Women, Black and Asian people, and those living in the most deprived areas of England are much less likely to receive life-saving aortic valve replacement surgery, according to new research published in Open Heart.

NHS leaders are concerned that the government is “stepping back from some of the ambitions it has previously set out”, following the publication of the Major Conditions Strategy (MCS).

A new research project which aims to understand how Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) have made use of funding targeted to address health inequalities has been launched today.

Health experts are calling on the government to implement a ‘Covenant for Health’ to significantly improve the health of our nation over the next five to 10 years.

The UK has been steadily falling down the life expectancy ranks since the 1950s, and is now ranked 29th globally.

The Health Disparities White Paper that was set to consider the wider determinants of health has been officially dropped by the government after months of speculation.

The Health Secretary, Steve Barclay, has announced that the government will publish a Major Conditions Strategy, which aims to narrow health inequalities and gain an extra five extra years of Healthy Life Expectancy (HLE) by 2035.

There are “worrying signs” that public health services could face further cuts, something that will further entrench health inequalities, according to the Health Foundation.