The 10-year health plan must take every opportunity to align with the goals set out in the health mission and its strategy for tackling health inequalities. NHS England should ensure that outcomes and process measures around tackling health inequalities are embedded within integrated care boards’ (ICBs) performance management structures.
The NHS Long Term Plan placed tackling health inequalities at the heart of NHS goals for this decade. The big population health improvement goals can only be met through far better engagement with those least likely to present at NHS services now. Furthermore, COVID-19 has shone a harsh light on some of the health and […]
For the five-year CCG allocations that underpin this Long Term Plan, NHS England will introduce from April 2019 more accurate assessment of need for community health and mental health services, as well as ensuring the allocations formulae are more responsive to the greatest health inequalities and unmet need in areas such as Blackpool.
As well as the costs to the social, physical and mental health of our communities, it was estimated that inequalities in emergency infectious disease hospital admissions cost the NHS between £970 ...
NHS secondary care costs are 22% higher for women and 16% higher for men living in the most deprived areas. Thus, health is a major determinant of economic performance. Tackling health inequalities: ... The Health Inequalities Team intends to provide support, advice, and expertise to these ongoing programmes to ensure that tackling health ...
Equip the NHS workforce with the right skills and knowledge to shift care towards prevention and early intervention. ... s advancing mental health equalities strategy aims to provide systems and trusts with the tools they need to address inequalities in mental health services (NHS England, 2020). The strategy highlights actions and goals within ...
The main causes of health inequalities include: Living conditions, such as housing, education, and income. Access to health and care services, which is not equal for everyone. Personal choices, often shaped by social and environmental factors. Health inequalities can be seen in many ways, such as: Differences in health outcomes between people ...
This offers a clear mandate for the NHS, through integrated care systems, to embed health inequalities improvement into the way it plans and delivers services. Again, there will be a need for a strong relationship and clear communication between the role of the ICP and that of the ICB in tackling inequalities - where the ICB works to improve ...
The Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Dashboard builds on our learning from the COVID-19 pandemic around the importance of good quality data to provide insights to drive improvements in tackling healthcare inequalities. Whilst several individual tools exist, the Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Dashboard provides key strategic indicators relating to healthcare inequalities all in one place.
Funding for primary care was an explicit priority in the NHS Long Term Plan (2019), yet primary care now accounts for a smaller share of total NHS spending than was the case before the long-term plan. With the prevalence of these five health conditions only set to rise, it is critical that primary care is resourced and supported to deal with ...
The Health and Care Act 2022 ushered in a wave of reforms to the NHS, including new legislation for tackling health inequalities. The Act placed a legal duty on NHS bodies to have regard to health inequalities and to report on the extent to which they have met this duty each year ( NHS Providers, 2022b ).
To realise a step change in health and wellbeing, systems will need to adopt new approaches to health inequalities as well as wider inequalities in society. We are working with system leaders to consistently reduce health inequalities, supporting one of NHS England’s key priorities for systems by: supporting the roll out of the Core20PLUS5 ...
A shared mission to end health inequality through neighbourhood working would provide staff, citizens and the wider public sector with clarity and an impetus to drive the transition forward. ... Department of Health and Social Care. The NHS is broken: Health and Social Care Secretary statement. Statement from Wes Streeting, Secretary of State ...
The experience of health inequality in the UK is some of the worst in Western Europe, with an average gap of 19 years in healthy life expectancy between the most and least deprived areas. The causes of these gaps are varied and complex, but there is little doubt that they are made worse by the experience of the kind of deep poverty that has ...
These unique services are commissioned directly in PPDs by NHS England to address health inequalities experienced by this vulnerable adult and children group and ensure equivalence of care. Adults ...
The NHS Act 2006 (as amended, by the Health and Care Act 2022) places a range of health inequalities duties on the NHS. Changes arising from the Health and Care Act 2022 provided extended legal duties on reducing and tackling health inequalities. NHS commissioners (NHS England and ICBs) are under specific legal duties to take account of health ...
The UKHSA estimated that, as well as the costs to the social, physical and mental health of communities, “inequalities in emergency infectious disease hospital admissions cost the NHS between £ ...
