The current political landscape may have prompted some organisations to shift their focus away from equity objectives. But for the health sector, to think that addressing existing inequalities is no longer mission critical would be not just ethically questionable but also very bad for business.
Realisation that significant disparities in underlying risk, access to care and health outcomes exist across the UK dates back several decades, and these gaps have persisted over the years across multiple conditions.
Cancer death rates, for example, are nearly 60% higher among people living in the most deprived areas of the UK compared with the least deprived.
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