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Content ArticleIn this blog for the Hospital Times, Tracy Bignall, Senior Policy and Practice Officer at the Race Equality Foundation, writes about how ethnicity impacts on women's health experiences. She argues that the The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) Vision for the Women's Health Strategy released in December 2021 does not give adequate attention to the influence that ethnicity has on women's experience of, and outcomes in healthcare. The article outlines instances in healthcare where ethnicity has an impact on women's health and calls for specific action to address how ethnicity influences health inequalities.
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Content ArticleThis study in the International Journal for Equity in Health aimed to listen to the views of community leaders from seven diverse urban communities in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota, around quality healthcare and financial reimbursement. In the US, healthcare quality is measured by insurers, professional organisations and government agencies, with little input from diverse communities. The researchers found that community leaders identified several ideal characteristics of quality primary healthcare, most of which are not currently measured. Community leaders expressed concern that health inequalities are perpetuated when social and structural determinants of health are not considered in determining quality.
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Content ArticleThis study in the International Journal for Equity in Health used an online survey to measure and assess relationships between health behaviours and outcomes, and measures of wealth and civic engagement. The relationships found in the survey results support the interrelationships of constructs within the conceptual model. The model can serve as a guide for future equity research, encouraging a more thorough assessment of equity.
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Content ArticleThis study in BMJ Quality & Safety aimed to determine whether areas with higher levels of socioeconomic deprivation or larger ethnic minority populations saw larger falls in emergency and planned admissions in England during the Covid-19 pandemic. The study found that Covid-19 did not have an evenly spread impact on NHS hospital care for non-Covid patients, with disparities corresponding to deprivation and ethnicity. Although it is hard to determine the mechanisms behind these differences, the authors argue that they could make pre-pandemic health inequalities worse.
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Visiting restrictions and the impact on patients and their families: a relative's perspective
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The pandemic has shone a stark spotlight on so many inequities and inconsistencies in access to health and social care. Unfortunately, many of these inequities were already there and so, in some respects, its nothing new. In this blog, I want to draw attention to how visiting restrictions can result in worse outcomes for patients and their families. I will focus mainly on the needs of older adults in hospital or care, and those with dementia, because that has been my own experience. But these restrictive practices have affected so many groups: among them, those with mental health conditions and those with learning and behavioural difficulties. -
Content ArticleThis toolkit has been created for NHS organisations to help them implement the Living Wage. It includes the accreditation process as well as case studies and advice from existing accredited NHS organisations.
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Content ArticleIn this blog for the King's Fund, Toby Lewis examines the need for NHS organisations to ensure its staff members in lower-paid roles are paid enough to meet their living costs. He calls for organisations to pay the real Living Wage, a figure based on actual living costs, rather than the National Living Wage. Currently, NHS pay scales at and below Band 2 spine point 3 do not reach the real Living Wage. He argues that adopting a real Living Wage policy results in a return on investment in the form of fewer vacancies, smaller staff turnover and less sickness - 60% of real Living Wage employers state that it improves recruitment, quality of applicant, and retention in lower-paid roles.
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Content ArticleThis report by The Health Foundation reviews attempts to tackle inequities in the supply of general practice services in England over the past 30 years. The ‘inverse care law’ was first defined by the GP Julian Tudor Hart 50 years ago and describes how people who most need health care are least likely to receive it. The report looks at policies on general practice funding, workforce, premises, contracts and commissioning, examining recent evidence on differences in GP services between more and less deprived areas of England and assessing past national policies to reduce inequities. The report then looks at the implications of this analysis and outlines policy recommendations for addressing the inverse care law in general practice.
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EventuntilProfessor Bola Owolabi, Director of the National Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme at NHS England, will be kicking off Patient Partnership Week 2023 on Monday 25th September. Prof Owolabi, who also works as GP in the Midlands, will be in conversation with Rachel Power, Chief Executive of the Patients Association. They'll be talking about the vital role partnerships with patients and communities play in tackling health inequalities. Sign up for this free event which will be held on Zoom About CORE20PLUS5 Prof Owolabi has spearheaded NHS England’s Core20PLUS5 approach to narrowing healthcare inequalities. Core20PLUS5 is a national approach to reducing healthcare inequalities. It defines a target population – the ‘Core20PLUS’ – and identifies ‘5’ clinical areas that require improvement. The Core20 refers to the most deprived 20% of the population. The PLUS are groups identified in a local area such as ethnic minority communities or people with multiple long-term health conditions. The 5 are these clinical areas: maternity, severe mental illness, chronic respiratory disease, early cancer diagnosis, and hypertension.
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EventuntilCare experienced young people are much more likely to experience poorer health, wellbeing, social and educational outcomes compared with the general population. These inequalities are not new, but were exacerbated by Covid-19 as care leavers experienced disrupted relationships and reduced access to support services. Specific groups of care leavers are likely to face additional disadvantages, such as those from ethnic minority backgrounds, unaccompanied refugee and asylum seeking children and/or disabled young people. Yet the health and health inequalities of young care leavers have largely been ignored within policy and practice. As part of AYPH’s youth health inequalities programme we reviewed the available evidence and undertook a youth engagement project with young people to draw together what we know. In this webinar you will hear directly from young people who will share their experiences of the barriers they face in leading healthy lives and accessing healthcare services. We will also highlight the latest available data on care leavers and health outcomes, demonstrating where inequalities exist for young people aged 10-25. During the event we will be launching two major publications that explore in more detail the role of care experience in understanding young people’s health, this will be the first opportunity to hear the learnings and recommendations from this research. The webinar is hosted jointly by the Association for Young People's Health and Coram Voice and will be co-chaired by a young person with experience on this topic. We will be joined by a range of expert speakers – more information to follow soon. Register for the webinar
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EventuntilThe Cancer Care Conference will be a culmination of Public Policy Projects' year-long programme to develop the Cancer Care Delivery Plan, and will feature a broad range of high-level speakers who are key players in cancer care policy and delivery. This full-day in-person conference in London will give you a unique opportunity to take part in conversations that will shape a broad range of healthcare policy that aims to improve delivery of cancer care. The Conference will also feature delegates from NHS England, NHS trusts, cancer specialists, academics, patient advocacy groups and leading industry partners, providing a space to network and develop relations that can enable substantive improvements in cancer care. Key topics Improving prevention, screening and treatment practices Addressing inequalities in access and outcomes Delivering personalised care and precision medicine Effectively utilising technology and data to improve care Addressing workforce and resource challenges Register for the conference
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EventuntilThe workforce crisis engulfing the health and care system is well documented with the social care staff vacancy rate at its highest since records began and the overall morale of the NHS workforce declining for a second year with significant numbers intending to leave the sector. This King's Fund event will be showcasing projects and case studies aimed at encouraging others to explore innovative and positively disruptive approaches to meeting challenges facing the health and social care workforce. It will cover areas including recruitment, retention, wellbeing, and equity, diversity and inclusion. Sessions will aim to: encourage senior leaders in integrated care systems, providers, public health and social care to think about how innovation becomes possible and what it means to take similarly mould-breaking mindsets into their own organisations inspire and catalyse new, imaginative approaches to seize opportunities as workforce responsibilities are devolved consider the impact of innovative approaches and their potential to be scaled up and replicated by others across health and care. You will hear about how innovative ways of working can be developed into practical approaches in the following areas: recruitment – developing disruptive approaches, using digital tools such as apps and online selection, and how those in health and care have been working with partners across local authorities and the housing sector attracting young people into the workforce – how people and organisations across health and social care have been engaging directly with communities and providing accessible routes into health and social care careers retention – supporting career pathways and development for people in support roles, working across an organisation to increase a sense of belonging, and building effective multidisciplinary teams and team behaviours workforce health and wellbeing – supporting staff following workplace trauma, developing cultures that meet the core needs of staff, and embracing flexibility and new ways of working to help people thrive throughout their careers making a difference to equity, diversity and inclusion in the health and care workplace – by using courageous leadership challenge (at all levels) to disrupt systemic patterns present in the health and care sector, and when diversity has been used as a real strength to create change. Register
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Black Maternal Health APPG Meeting
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untilThe Black Maternal Health All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) is having a meeting to discuss various updates and new improvements that have been made in the maternity world. The meeting will be hosted and chaired by Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP, Chair of the APPG and the Secretariat of the APPG is provided by Five X More CIC The E8 Group and Mimosa Midwives. The APPG aims to raise awareness of the issue of racial disparities within maternal healthcare and offer solutions to end this. Register -
EventuntilCommunities are playing an increasingly important role in improving health and meeting the wellbeing needs of people locally, highlighted in part by their role in the response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Integrated care systems (ICSs) need to recognise the role communities can play in improving and sustaining good health, and as part of this they need to seek greater involvement with local voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) groups at the place and neighbourhood level, where the link local communities is at its strongest. This conference will provide an opportunity to discuss the impact of community-led and person-centred approaches to improving health and wellbeing, and to explore what more can be done to build on community interventions, assets and solutions that developed as a response to the pandemic. It will also consider the challenges of demonstrating value and of working with communities to assess need and provide services. You will hear from community groups who have worked with others – including their ICS, local health system or local authority – to develop a collaborative approach to tackling health inequalities.
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Webinar: Health equity and human rights
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untilThis workshop will educate delegates about the principles of health inequality and the relationship between health equity and human rights. The workshop will cover the principles and definitions of health inequalities and how they can be measured and studied. Delegates will be given practical guidance on how to translate this knowledge into their own practice. The workshop will include a range of guest speakers from Public Health Wales, and will provide real world examples from Wales and across the world. Register for the webinar -
EventuntilJoin us to learn how welfare rights advice services are being integrated with healthcare nationwide to tackle poverty and health inequality. This event will be of interest to people working in Integrated Care Systems and public health policy and practice. Taking action on poverty and health inequality is ever more important for the NHS, as the current cost of living crisis increases hardship among communities. The consequences for health and wellbeing will be felt most keenly among low income and vulnerable patient groups. Health justice partnerships are targeted interventions that support patients with social and economic circumstances that are root causes of health inequality. They are partnerships between health services and organisations specialising in welfare rights. Advice on welfare rights issues is integrated with patient care, helping people resolve problems relating to benefits, debt, housing, employment and immigration, among others. This can support those in the hardest circumstances to maximise their health and wellbeing. This one-day in-person workshop is an opportunity to learn about health justice partnerships and how they are being implemented across the country in a range of NHS settings. We will be joined by speakers who are engaged in service delivery, policy and research, who will provide examples and insights from their work. Speakers will include: Professor Dame Hazel Genn, Director of the Centre for Access to Justice, UCL Cedi Frederick, Chair of the NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board Natalie Davis, Head of Legal Support Policy, Ministry of Justice Catherine McClennan, Director of the Women’s Health and Maternity Programme, Cheshire and Merseyside Health & Care Partnership Paul Sweeting, Insight and Performance Partner, Macmillan Cancer Support Refreshments are provided and there will be opportunities for discussion and networking. Outline of the day (provisional timings) 09.15: Registration and refreshments 10.15: Plenary session 1 - Introducing Health Justice Partnerships 11.45: Plenary session 2 - Health Justice Partnership case studies 13.00: Lunch provided 14.00: Plenary session 3 - Implementing Health Justice Partnerships 15.15: Group discussion session 4 - Where next for you? 16.30: Refreshments and networking Please see our website for further information on Health Justice Partnerships. Register for a place This event is supported by The Legal Education Foundation.
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EventuntilThe Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare deep-seated health inequalities and the issue is now at the forefront of the minds of people across the health and care system, as they seek to develop strategies aimed at reducing health inequalities at a regional, integrated care system (ICS) and place level. This conference will bring together individuals and teams developing health inequalities strategies. We will discuss the need for universal action at a population health level and targeted action to address issues affecting people facing the worst health outcomes, showing how these two approaches interlink. The conference will also explore opportunities across health and care to tackle health inequalities and learn from local and international leaders about how they are overcoming the challenges of turning evidence into action to make a difference to health inequalities. Register
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EventThe case for addressing poverty, its root causes and associated health inequalities is urgent and overwhelming. The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the harm caused by deprivation, and the cost-of-living crisis is likely to hit the poorest the hardest – leading to poorer health and lower social mobility. At this event, leaders across the NHS, local government, the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector, and those with lived experience will share learning on the role of the health and care sector in tackling the root causes of poverty. This King's Fund event will provide practical examples on how the health and care sector can effectively engage with partners across local government, the VCSE sector and business, to achieve meaningful progress on poverty and deliver services to the most excluded in society. You will hear about the role of NHS organisations as ‘anchor institutions’ and discuss how health and care organisations should use their influence and resources to poverty-proof services, address inequalities, and benefit the communities they serve. Register
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EventuntilJoin us and discover first-hand how the equitable implementation of NICE recommendations ensures that care provided is effective, makes efficient use of resources and reduces inequalities and unwarranted variation. Discover how we are aligning what we do with Integrated Care Systems (ICS) and wider system priorities and how our evidence-based recommendations are aligned to recognised health inequalities frameworks such as Labonte and Marmot. Register for the event
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EventuntilTackling inequalities is of vital importance to improving health outcomes. Join top experts from healthcare, science and policy at this full-day conference, in partnership with NHS England. Taking place at the Royal Society of Medicine in Central London, you’ll connect with the latest research and thinking on health inequalities, including at a networking event in the evening. The conference will include key speakers and panel sessions in the morning. The panels will focus on the importance of the key clinical areas outlined in the Core20PLUS5 approach and the role of national organisations in reducing healthcare inequalities. In the afternoon there will be expert sessions, focusing on the five clinical areas of health inequalities and a session on prevention. These will be delivered by senior leads from NHS England and specialist leads from the Royal Society of Medicine. This is a unique opportunity to network over drinks and a complimentary lunch with leaders in the tackling inequalities space, and specialists within the Core20PLUS5 medical sections. Keynote speakers: Dr Bola Owolabi, Director, Health Inequalities at NHS England Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Professor of Epidemiology at University College London, Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity Register
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EventuntilTo address health disparities, we need to focus on improving health literacy, digital literacy and digital access. In this 30-minute live webinar and Q&A from Health Education England, you will find out about our newly available maps and online tool using, place-based geodata to identify levels of health literacy and digital access in your area. The session will also introduce easy read resources for shared decision making, co-produced with experts by experience, and how to use these are part of a series of steps to address local health disparities. Register for the webinar
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EventuntilEntrenched health inequalities have come to the fore over the past couple of years and we have seen some of the sharpest declines in health and wellbeing for our children, young people and their families. Never has there been a more urgent need to address the link between wider social, economic and environmental causes to the increased risk of poor public health and mental health. These are best understood and addressed at a local level by people and organisations that have relationships and knowledge of the nuances and cultures of individuals and communities. The formation of Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) represents a significant opportunity for Boards to engage the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector in order to enable a truly integrated Health and Social Care System to be delivered. These new arrangements which will bring together local system partners should serve to strengthen relationships between the NHS and VCSE sector and promote greater equity. This free webinar, co-produced and sponsored by Barnardo’s, brings together an esteemed panel of experts to discuss how we make the most of these opportunities at this critical time, as well as showcasing innovative VCSE projects that are delivering improved outcomes for children, young people and their families. Register for the webinar
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Content ArticlePeople living in deprived areas experience the most significant health inequalities in terms of access, experience and outcomes. There are large reductions in life expectancy for those living in the most deprived areas compared to people living in the least deprived areas. NHS England commissioned a research project into access, experience and outcomes related to health services in socio-economically deprived communities. This communications and engagement toolkit is an output of the research. The toolkit is designed to be used by communications and engagement professionals and others across the NHS with a responsibility for communicating to and engaging with people in the most deprived areas.
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Content ArticleThere is a well-established case for involving communities and people with lived experience in health and care policy, service design and delivery. NHS England guidance on working in partnership with communities highlights the financial benefits and improvements to quality and health outcomes that working with local communities brings. But could this involvement go further? In this article, Loreen Chikwira, Researcher at The King's Fund looks at the arguments for the use of intersectional approaches in understanding people’s lived experience of care in tackling ethnic health inequalities. These intersectional approaches help health and care providers shift their focus from people’s behaviours to also identifying and addressing ways of working that create and reinforce inequalities and poor experiences of care.
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Content ArticleNew research from Healthwatch shows that people are currently facing multiple cancellations or postponements of care which are having a significant impact on their lives and symptoms, while further increasing health inequalities. Healthwatch cmmissioned a survey of 1084 people who have seen their NHS care either cancelled or postponed this year to understand the extent of disruption to care amid rising waiting lists, workforce issues, and industrial action, and other pressures on the NHS.
