About this event

  • Date and time Tue 28 Jan 2025 from 8:15am to 6:45pm
  • Location Royal Society of Medicine

Launched in 2023, the Royal Society of Medicine and NHS England’s five-year Tackling Inequalities programme, based on the Core20PLUS5 framework, is driving meaningful improvements in health inequalities across integrated care systems. This vital initiative focuses on equitable healthcare delivery, empowering even the most vulnerable to lead healthier lives.

Now in its third year, the Tackling Health Inequalities conference has become a key event for healthcare professionals. The 2025 programme includes expert keynote speeches, fireside chats, breakout sessions, and presentations from our abstract competition finalists, concluding with an inspiring motivational speaker and a networking drinks reception.

This is the perfect opportunity to unite, engage in thought-provoking and solutions-driven dialogue, share skills, learning and tools, network, build relationships and collaborate across sectors. Leave the day inspired to be a catalyst for change in your community and write your pledge to support improving health inequality!

By attending this event, you will:

  • Gain a deeper understanding of the Core20PLUS5 approach and its practical applications to address healthcare inequalities
  • Learn skills and tools to improve leadership and accountability in health inequality initiatives
  • Gain insights into best practices and innovative projects, with opportunities to share and learn from successful implementations
  • Benefit from opportunities to network with peers and experts, fostering interdisciplinary relationships and collaborative efforts to reduce health inequalities

Learn more about the Core20Plus5 approach:

  • Core20: Focuses on the most deprived 20% of the population, considering social determinants of health.
  • PLUS: Targets specific groups identified locally, including ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, those with long-term conditions, and inclusion health groups such as the homeless, vulnerable migrants, and Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities.
  • 5 Key Areas: Maternity, severe mental illness, chronic respiratory disease, early cancer diagnosis, hypertension and lipid management.

“The answer lies between us” - Tackling Health Inequalities 2024

Tackling Health Inequalities has quickly become a staple in the calendars of a wide cross-section of healthcare professionals over the course of a few short years. The 2024 conference, 'Through Innovation and Entrepreneurship’ emphasised the need for individuals to work together across teams and specialties to improve impactful outcomes. Read our report on learnings from the 2024 conference here.

 

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We would like to thank our co-sponsor Gilead and our charity partners for their support of this meeting. 
Please note that the main scientific programme and content has not been influenced in any way by the sponsors.

Tickets

Early Bird pricing available until 14 January 2025.

Member

RSM Fellow RSM Associate RSM Retired Fellow RSM Trainee RSM Student
£108.00 £67.00 £67.00 £67.00 £36.00

Non - Member

Consultant / GP / SAS Doctors Non Healthcare Professional AHP / Nurse / Midwife Trainee Student
£195.00 £164.00 £118.00 £118.00 £62.00

Key speakers

Professor Kevin Fenton

Professor Kevin Fenton CBE

President, Faculty of Public Health

Speaker's biography

Professor Kevin Fenton CBE, President of the Faculty of Public Health, is an internationally recognised expert with over 25 years of experience in public health medicine, infectious disease epidemiology, and health equity. He currently holds dual roles as Regional Director for London in the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities and Regional Director of Public Health for NHS London. Professor Fenton also serves as the government's Chief Advisor for HIV, leading the implementation of the ambitious HIV Action Plan focused on eliminating new transmissions by 2030.

With a career spanning global, national, and local public health leadership, Professor Fenton brings a wealth of knowledge on tackling health inequalities, infectious disease control, the social determinants of health, and urban health. He is dedicated to promoting evidence-based, equitable, and sustainable public health practices.

Maggie Rae (new)

Professor Maggie Rae CBE

President, Epidemiology and Public Health Section, Royal Society of Medicine and Past President, Faculty of Public Health

Speaker's biography

Professor Maggie Rae is former President of the Faculty of Public Health and current President of the RSM Epidemiology and Public Health Section.

A leading public-health expert, she runs the public-health training programme in the South West of England and works on programme development in the region.

She has been working in public health for nearly 40 years and has worked in local, regional and national roles with different national agencies.

Amit Aggarwal

Dr Amit Aggarwal

Executive Director, Medical Affairs and Strategic Partnerships, The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry

Speaker's biography

Amit Aggarwal has over 14 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry, most recently at LEO Pharma as Medical Director for the UK and Ireland. Prior to that he spent over a decade at Bayer where he held various roles including pharmacovigilance, Global medical affairs, and latterly as Director of Medical Affairs UK for General Medicine.

 

His background is as a medic, spending 5 years working clinically in the NHS, mainly in secondary care. Amit has worked on both innovative and established product launches, spanning a range of therapy areas including oncology, women's health, cardiovascular medicine, dermatology and thrombosis in the UK and globally.

 

Amit holds a MA in Neuroscience from the University of Cambridge, and a MBBS from Guy’s, King’s & St Thomas’ School of Medicine. 

Ms Sally Warren

Director General, 10 Year Health Plan, Department of Health and Social Care

Professor Lucy Chappell

Chief Scientific Adviser, Department of Health and Social Care and Chief Executive Officer, National Institute for Health and Care

Professor Dame Lesley Regan DBE

Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Imperial College London, Past President, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and Chair, Wellbeing of Women

Agenda

View the provisional programme

Registration, tea and coffee

Morning session

Chair: Preeya Bailie, Director, NHS Central Commercial Function, NHS England

Welcome and introduction

Ms Sally Warren, Director General, 10 Year Health Plan, Department of Health and Social Care

Keynote speaker
Keynote speaker

Dr Amit Aggarwal, Executive Director, Medical Affairs and Strategic Partnerships, The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry

Unseen, unheard trailer

Mr Darcy Bowman, Director, Public Affairs, UK & Ireland, Gilead Sciences

Keynote speaker

Professor Kevin Fenton CBE, President, Faculty of Public Health

Questions and answers
Tea and coffee break

Mid-morning session

Chair: Ms Ellie Orton OBE, Chief Executive Officer, NHS Charities Together

Fireside chat: Communities and employment

Chair: Ms Ellie Orton OBE

Mr Duleep Allirajah, Chief Executive, the Richmond Group of Charities, Mr Kevin Garrod, Anchor Programme Manager - Local Value Lead, Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, Mr Andrew Fenton, Director - Population Health and Health Inequalities, NHS South Central and West

Abstract presentation session
Questions and answers
Keynote: Health inequalities - How they really affect people’s lives

Professor Maggie Rae CBE, President, Epidemiology and Public Health Section, Royal Society of Medicine and Past President, Faculty of Public Health

Questions and answers
Lunch

Afternoon session

Breakout rooms
Room 1. Case study: Wearable technology

Dr Sadia Khan, Consultant Cardiologist, West Middlesex University Hospital, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Grant McQueen, Senior Project Manager, Emergency and Integrated Care, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Jasjit Syan, Cardiology Fellow, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Room 2. Partnership to achieve a public health goal

Chair: Ms Rachel Power, Chief Executive, The Patients Association

Pauline Hakutangwi, Market Access Strategy Manager and UK Diversity Equity and Inclusion Lead, Novartis UK, Dr Leena Sathia, Director, Liver Disease Medical Affairs, Gilead Sciences UK and Ireland

Room 3. Core20PLUS Connectors - Community Empowerment
Tea and coffee break

Closing session

Chair: Professor Bola Owolabi, Director, National Healthcare Inequalities Team, NHS England

Fireside chat: Research

Chair: Professor Gillian Leng CBE, President, Royal Society of Medicine

Professor Lucy Chappell, Chief Scientific Adviser, Department of Health and Social Care and Chief Executive Officer, National Institute for Health and Care Research, Professor Dame Lesley Regan DBE, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Imperial College London, Past President, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and Chair, Wellbeing of Women

Motivational speaker
Closing remarks

Professor Bola Owolabi

Drinks reception

For all participants

Close of event

Location

Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom

Registration for this event will close on 27 January 2025 at 1:00am. Late registrations will not be accepted. 

The agenda is subject to change at any time.  

All views expressed at this event are of the speakers themselves and not of the Royal Society of Medicine, nor the speaker's organisations. 

We are only able to share presentations that we have received permission to share. This is at the presenter and the RSM’s discretion. 

This event will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be distributed in future on various internet channels. 

Our partners

This conference is hosted in partnership with NHS England.

If you are interested in becoming a partner for this conference or other activities which are part of our ‘Tackling Inequalities’ initiative, please contact events@rsm.ac.uk