Health inequalities are unfair and avoidable differences in health across the population, and between different groups within society. These include how long people are likely to live, the health conditions they may experience and the care that is available to them. The conditions in which we are born, grow, live, work and age can impact […]
In recent years, there has been a growth in guidance on the role of the NHS in addressing health inequalities, from NHSE, CQC and external organisations. Some of these provide statutory actions that trusts must take, while others are recommendations of good practice. ... Core20PLUS5 is NHSE’s approach to reducing healthcare inequalities at a ...
Applying a health equity lens to our work in health protection, including through the data and evidence, can catalyse action in reducing inequalities through prevention and early treatment in ...
Addressing these inequalities should be a key focus for NHS organisations, and NHS leaders play an important role in pushing this forward. The Bridging the gap guidance explains the importance of addressing health inequalities in the NHS and sets out the existing statutory duties and guidance given to NHS organisations on health inequalities.
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 ...
The group’s task was to work out what must be done now to turn the promise of a shift from hospital to community care into practice in a way that improves public health, reduces inequality and also helps to reduce pressure on GP and NHS resources over the short, medium and long term. The policy sprint could not have come at a more opportune time.
There has been a growth in guidance on health inequalities from both NHSE and external organisations – including the Core20PLUS5 approach for reducing inequalities (NHS England, 2021b) and the statement on information on health inequalities (NHS England, 2023a).
This means setting clear objectives related to reducing health inequalities, actively tracking progress, and leaders being held to account for achieving these goals. Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children has established a dedicated health inequalities committee and steering groups that report to the board. With an executive lead and an ...
Core20PLUS5 is a national NHS England approach to inform action to reduce healthcare inequalities at both national and system level. The approach defines a target population – the ‘Core20PLUS’ – and identifies ‘5’ focus clinical areas requiring accelerated improvement. The approach, which initially focussed on healthcare inequalities experienced by adults, has now been adapted to […]
play in shaping and reinforcing ethnic health inequalities. • Despite a strong legal and policy framework, individual commitment and pockets of success, the analysis presented in this report shows that the NHS has failed to make significant progress, both in reducing ethnic health inequalities and in tackling wider health inequalities.
• Include reducing health inequalities in future NHS long-term plans, annual strategies and operational planning guidance to give local places the tools to work with staff – at board level and those delivering services – to show inequalities should be part of their everyday work and practice.
Each subsequent government has failed to act to close the health gap, and health inequalities are widening as a result. The incoming Labour government brought with them a new hope, as they promised to meet the target of halving health inequalities between regions over the course of the parliament. In the context of the UK’s entrenched ...
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 £ ...
REDUCING HEALTH INEQUALITIES A GUIDE FOR NHS TRUST BOARD MEMBERS Health inequalities are unjust and avoidable differences in people’s health across the population and between specific groups. The need and desire to tackle health inequalities rose up the agenda in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic as inequalities in health outcomes were laid bare.
The report underscores that inequities in health are closely linked to degrees of social disadvantage and levels of discrimination. Health follows a social gradient whereby the more deprived the area in which people live, the lower their incomes are and they have fewer years of education, poorer health, with less number of healthy years to live.
It covers the five priority areas for narrowing healthcare inequalities in the 2021-22 planning guidance. It also covers data relating to the five clinical areas in our Core20PLUS5 approach. By providing data cut by ethnicity and deprivation, the dashboard will enable the NHS to take concerted action to improve health inequalities.
At a population level, educational attainment has the ability to accelerate many of the solutions to poverty, among them economic growth and reduced income inequality, improved nutrition and preventive health, and reduced violence at home and in the community [54,55,56]. In addition to educational policies and systems that are key factors in ...
The NHS has also delivered more equitable outcomes with significant focus on reducing inequalities worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic including development of the Core20PLUS5 framework – based on evidence and embedded with 543 Connectors – those with influence in their community who can help engage local people with health services, and 245 ...
