Several networks are available to stakeholders to support healthcare inequalities improvement. National Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Network (NHIIN) The NHIIN provides invaluable clinical and professional insight and challenge as well as an opportunity to spread best practice. It champions a quality improvement approach to tackling healthcare inequalities building on strengths, co-production and using data to inspire […]

A planning matrix has been developed to help NHS colleagues assess how their work is helping to reduce health inequalities and ensure high quality healthcare for all. The Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Planning Matrix outlines key areas for consideration when services are designed, implemented, and evaluated. The matrix is being used by national NHS programme and […]

A number of resources are available to support stakeholders to reduce healthcare inequalities. These can be accessed from the Equality and Health Inequalities Network on the FutureNHS platform. The site includes system focussed guidance, support tools information, best practice and the latest reports and events from NHS England’s Patient Equality and Healthcare Inequalities Improvement programmes. […]

There are a number of useful tools and sources of data and intelligence to help stakeholders and members of the public understand and support the reduction of health inequalities. Most national NHS England programmes will have their own dashboards which will largely be available to those with OKTA accounts. Dashboards are intended to support programme […]

The National Healthcare Inequalities Improvement programme has recently completed the recruitment for cohort 2 of the Core20PLUS Ambassador programme 2023-24. This has resulted in approx 250 Core20PLUS ambassadors joining the programme to promote the importance of reducing inequalities across the healthcare system and to drive this important agenda forwards. This builds on the over 100  […]

Eight out of the ten local authorities in the UK with the highest rates of child poverty are in the North East and Cumbria. The region also has a higher proportion of people living in the 20% most deprived areas than the national average. Poverty and low income are known factors which influence people’s health, […]

Menopause can be defined as the natural stage in every woman’s life when a woman’s periods stop and her ovaries lose their reproductive function.  The medical definition of menopause is when you have not had your monthly period for at least 12 consecutive months. This usually happens between the ages of 45 and 55 but […]

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In early 2021 health staff in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland found that some people with a learning disability were not having a COVID vaccine because they were finding vaccination hubs and GP practices were not set up to meet their specific needs. To support people better an area of a vaccination centre was transformed to […]

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