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Icon for www.bbc.co.ukBBC · Aug 5, 2019

What are the reasons for health inequalities in the UK?

Mental health and wellbeing scores also reflected a similar pattern of inequality with those in the most deprived areas having poorer mental health than those in the least deprived areas The SHS ...
Icon for www.nice.org.ukNational Institute for Health and Care Excellence · Oct 6, 2022

NICE and health inequalities

These factors often overlap, meaning people can fall into combinations of these categories. This can compound the severity of health inequalities experienced. prevalence of conditions and mortality behavioural risks to health such as smoking the wider ...
Icon for www.msn.comMSN · Mar 27, 2025

Experts split on whether mental illnesses are ‘overdiagnosed’ in UK

His work and pensions secretary, Mel Stride, claimed “mental health ... all suggests inequalities in undiagnosed distress are a much bigger problem than overdiagnosis in the UK.
Icon for medicalxpress.comMedical Xpress · 28d

Socioeconomic inequalities drive significant gaps in access to mental health care across the European Union

Significant socioeconomic inequalities exist in access to mental health care across the European Union, with financial barriers disproportionately affecting lower-income populations.
Icon for pharmaphorum.compharmaphorum · 5d

Growing health inequality in UK prompts call for ‘joined up strategy’

In the last UK election in 2019, the NHS emerged as a major talking point, as the scale of the country’s support of the service was brought to the fore. Now, with health inequality a growing ...
Icon for www.redcross.org.ukBritish Red Cross · Feb 14, 2023

VCSE health and wellbeing alliance

Investigating risk, responsibility and opportunity for addressing health inequalities through virtual wards ... People in these groups are more likely to experience poor mental health than the wider UK population, including higher rates of depression ...
Icon for pharmaphorum.compharmaphorum · 12d

Health inequalities: A societal challenge that needs a cross-sector solution

COVID-19 has laid the UK’s health inequalities bare and created an imperative for the NHS to develop a step-change in how it cares for diverse and marginalised communities. Health inequality is ...
Wales Online on MSN.com · 5d

Big change planned for mental health services in Wales

People will get 'non-clinical support' and could access same-day services in a bid to focus on early intervention
Icon for www.bristol.ac.ukUniversity of Bristol · May 12, 2022

COVID-19 impact on mental health and wellbeing

The speed with which we were able to gather evidence of how the pandemic escalated anxiety levels was instrumental in urging the UK government to improve mental health services and public guidance. Mental health and COVID-19: Influencing policy and public ...
Warrington Guardian on MSN.com · 13d

Covid ‘amplified’ Warrington’s long-standing inequalities

LONG-STANDING inequalities in Warrington were ‘amplified’ by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a report. A report providing an overview of the health inequalities resulting from the pandemic will come before the protecting the most vulnerable policy committee at its meeting on Wednesday.
Icon for www.independent.co.ukThe Independent · 5d

Headteachers across the UK are facing mental health crisis, new poll reveals

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Icon for www.news-medical.netNews Medical · 28d

Study reveals socioeconomic inequalities in unmet needs for mental health care across the EU

Introduction: Mental health disorders are a leading cause of disability in European Union countries. Previous evidence highlighted the role of socioeconomic inequalities on unmet mental health ...
Icon for www.msn.comNews Medical on MSN.com · 18d

Children face ‘lifelong psychological wounds’ from entrenched inequities made worse by pandemic, doctor warns

after a prolonged period of cuts to UK public services, Britain’s struggle with COVID-19 has fundamentally reshaped its social, economic, and health landscape. Dr Hayre, who led the Independent SAGE report on COVID-19 and Health Inequality, outlines ...
Icon for www.itv.comITV · Aug 4, 2020

Black Voices

Black Thrive a partnership between local communities, statutory organisations, the voluntary sector and private sector who work collaboratively to reduce mental health inequality experienced by ...
Icon for www.qmul.ac.ukQueen Mary University of London · Dec 16, 2021

Centre for Psychiatry and Mental Health

focus on research to reduce inequalities and the effects of life adversity across the lifespan. UPM is home to a large teaching group who deliver a range of postgraduate taught courses, as well as short courses, in mental health and psychiatry. The NIHR ...
Icon for www.independent.co.ukThe Independent · 27d

‘Mothers will never be the priority’: Postnatal mental health support cut despite surge in women seeking help

One in five of the 600,000 women a year who give birth in the UK experience a mental health condition, NHS figures show – and a quarter have a negative birth experience. Mental health conditions ...
Icon for www.bbc.co.ukBBC · Mar 26, 2025

Mental health funding announced for steelworks town

More than £3m has now been announced by the UK government's steel transition board to boost mental health support in the community. Earlier this week, Tata Steel confirmed 300 jobs have been ...
Icon for en.mercopress.comMercoPress · May 14, 2024

Falklands, Anti-stigma campaign on Mental Health supported by FIG and UK

This Mental Health Awareness week Monday 13 – Sunday 19 May 2024 the KEMH Public Health Unit are launching a second survey focusing on developing an anti-stigma campaign for the Falkland Islands.
Icon for www.sheffield.ac.ukUniversity of Sheffield · Dec 3, 2024

Health Inequalities

Please complete this form to register to be a member of the Health Inequalities theme. If you'd like your research to be featured on this page, email us at scypher@sheffield.ac.uk. Dr Jill Thompson is a senior lecturer in global health and wellbeing.
Icon for www.manchester.ac.ukUniversity of Manchester · Jun 1, 2020

Improving mental health support for young people

Around 10% of schoolchildren currently experience some form of mental health difficulty and up to half of all adult cases begin during school years. Research suggests that early interventions like teaching skills and guidance on life challenges before the ...
Mirage News · 3d

UKHSA Releases Study on England Health Inequalities

Data shows current state of health inequalities caused by infectious diseases, as well as environmental health hazards As part of its commitment to
Icon for www.bbc.comBBC · 6d

Mental health law 'won't stop detentions'

Welsh disability rights campaigners were among those who staged a protest in Westminster against what they say are significant shortcomings in UK Labour's Mental Health Bill. The UK government ...
BBC on MSN.com · 5d

Study gets £4.5m to examine children's health

Born in Bradford - an internationally recognised research programme that originally studied 12,500 babies born in the city between March 2007 and December 2010 - has received £4.5m from the Wellcome Discovery Award. The cash will fund an eight-year study aimed at addressing childhood health and wellbeing inequalities in inner-city Bradford.
Financial Times · 3d

UK agency finds stark inequalities in health protection

Chances of hospital admission with infectious disease strongly linked to factors such as ethnicity and deprivation, report says
Icon for bristol.ac.ukUniversity of Bristol · Mar 31, 2024

Health Inequalities in Inner City East Bristol: Community Strength in Challenging Times

Healthy neighbourhoods and a strong community sector are essential to allow people to support their own health, and to reduce health inequalities ... ‘People with poor mental health who are not supported well by services affect the mental health of ...
Icon for www.msn.comThe Irish News on MSN.com · 11d

Race and class inequality ‘at the heart of men’s ill health,’ Wes Streeting tells LBC

Men are being "disproportionately affected" by a number of serious medical conditions including their mental health, Wes Streeting has told LBC.
Icon for bjsm.bmj.comBMJ · 5d

Inequalities across the physical activity landscape: the need for ‘structural humility’ to optimise sports and exercise medicine

Health inequalities are worsening across the UK and the wider world due to socioeconomic factors ... There was a disproportionate increase in the physical, mental and financial burden experienced by female athletes, those with disabilities and those ...
Icon for www.bigissue.comThe Big Issue · 27d

I'm a clinical psychologist. I know just how badly racism is damaging children's mental health

Racism in the UK, and the lies of ... poverty, and health inequalities. The government’s child poverty taskforce, then, cannot afford to omit race; to do so would be to ignore the foundations of the mental health crisis in young people.
Icon for www.manchester.ac.ukUniversity of Manchester · Feb 14, 2022

Review highlights stark ethnic healthcare inequalities in the UK

A major new review into ethnic inequalities in healthcare has revealed vast inequalities across a range of health services in the UK. The review ... explored differences in mental healthcare, maternal & neonatal healthcare, digital access to healthcare ...
Icon for www.eurekalert.orgEurekAlert! · 28d

Socioeconomic inequalities drive significant gaps in access to mental health care across the European union

The study focused on self-reported unmet needs for mental health care due to financial reasons, examining inequalities based on income, education, and degree of urbanisation. Key findings from the ...
Icon for www.lse.ac.uklse · Jul 29, 2020

Improving the provision of mental health services in the UK

Dementia UK continued to be widely influential, including in relation to the National Audit Office's 2010 follow-up report, the 2010 Public Health White Paper and the 2011 Mental Health Strategy. Mental health problems affect more than one in six UK adults.
Icon for www.express.co.ukDaily Express · Apr 3, 2025

Audit finds 40% of NHS mental health patients languishing on waiting lists

The devastating reality of appalling NHS mental health services is laid bare in a shocking report showing people are waiting too long and not able to access care they need when they need it.