As the conversation grows around health inequalities, we wanted to highlight three recent resources.
This King’s Fund podcast episode from 29th November explores how the NHS waiting list for elective care can be better managed to improve health equity. A really interesting discussion of the ethics, impact on patients and healthcare professionals, policy decisions and controversies around how waiting lists are managed and prioritised.
Ruth Roberston invites Dr Mark Ratnarajah, UK Managing Director at C2-Ai, Sharon Brennan, Director of Policy and External Affairs at National Voices and Dr Polly Mitchell, Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Bioethics and Public Policy at King’s College London to share their expertise.
Listen here: Elective care waiting lists: can you make them fair?
The King’s Fund have also recently published a report in which they undertook qualitative case studies in three NHS trusts and relevant ICBs into how they are managing to embed NHS’s England’s policy of identifying and tackling health inequalities in their waiting lists.
NHS England has also recently issued a statement on how NHS bodies should exercise the powers available to them of data collection, analysis and publication of information on health inequalities.
Read NHS England’s statement on information on health inequalities