The gap in healthy life expectancy between females born in the most and least deprived areas has widened from 19.6 years in ...

Over 11 million Nigerians are now enrolled in state-run health insurance schemes, signaling significant progress toward Universal Health Coverage (UHC) as ...

A new report has explored the mental health inequalities experienced by Black communities in local services. Mind in Berkshire heard from more than 180 people on several key themes relating to ...

The report highlights both progress and challenges in Ireland’s efforts to promote social inclusion, showing a mixed picture of improving economic conditions alongside worsening health ...

So far, Labour’s health mission has focused on the NHS. But this alone won’t reverse early death in deindustrialised towns or counter the political damage from ill health.

The writer is chief executive of the Health Foundation think-tank Plot a map of poor health in England and overlay it with where Reform UK saw its strongest vote share in the general election — the ...

Tackling health inequalities Tackling health inequalities has long been a core part of NICE’s work and is enshrined in our principles. This month we published a modular update to our health technology ...

Inequality continues to kill people on a “grand scale” across the world, experts have warned, with factors like poor housing and a lack of education and jobs influencing health more than ...

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has for the first time set out the ‘stark’ health inequalities faced by those living in the most deprived areas. It includes double the rate of emergency hospital ...

This is the bluntest example of what is known, to those who study it, as health inequality. The Covid-19 pandemic exposed the public to the realities of health inequalities on a stunning scale. During ...

A £3.9m sexual health service for Teesside will be run by a new medical consortium from August. The Tees Sexual Health Service will tackle the region's "high level of sexual health risk and ill ...

Advocates are joining the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) to improve the experience for patients by helping to identify and tackle any health inequalities.