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Tackling health inequalities: Health is wealth

Join our third conference to advance the Core20PLUS5 mission of tackling health inequalities. This year's theme, 'Industry, Research, and Employment', offers expert keynotes, interactive discussions, breakout sessions, and a networking reception

  • Location Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom
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What we learned at the Tackling Inequalities conference 2023: Early cancer diagnosis

18 December 2023

Continuing our series of articles, we share insights from NHS England’s report on key learnings from our joint Tackling Inequalities conference in January 2023. The report has been published ahead of the upcoming second conference on 16 January 2024, which will focus on tackling inequalities through innovation and entrepreneurship. This article delves into the first conference's insights on addressing inequalities in early cancer diagnosis.

 

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What we learned at the Tackling Inequalities conference 2023: Hypertension case-finding

18 December 2023

Continuing our series of articles, we share insights from NHS England’s report on key learnings from our joint Tackling Inequalities conference in January 2023. The report has been published ahead of the upcoming second conference on 16 January 2024, which will focus on tackling inequalities through innovation and entrepreneurship. This article delves into the first conference's insights on addressing inequalities in hypertension case-finding.

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What we learned at the Tackling Inequalities conference 2023: Severe mental illness

18 December 2023

Continuing our series of articles, we share insights from NHS England’s report on key learnings from our joint Tackling Inequalities conference in January 2023. The report has been published ahead of the upcoming second conference on 16 January 2024, which will focus on tackling inequalities through innovation and entrepreneurship. This article delves into the first conference's insights on addressing inequalities in severe mental illness.

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What we learned at the Tackling Inequalities conference 2023: Chronic respiratory disease

18 December 2023

Continuing our series of articles, we share insights from NHS England’s report on key learnings from our joint Tackling Inequalities conference in January 2023. The report has been published ahead of the upcoming second conference on 16 January 2024, which will focus on tackling inequalities through innovation and entrepreneurship. This article delves into the first conference's insights on addressing inequalities in chronic respiratory disease.

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What we learned at the Tackling Inequalities conference 2023: Prevention

18 December 2023

Continuing our series of articles, we share insights from NHS England’s report on key learnings from our joint Tackling Inequalities conference in January 2023. The report has been published ahead of the upcoming second conference on 16 January 2024, which will focus on tackling inequalities through innovation and entrepreneurship. This article delves into the first conference's insights on prevention, with a focus on smoking cessation.

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What we learned at the Tackling Inequalities conference 2023: Maternity

18 December 2023

In a series of articles, we share insights from NHS England's new report on key learnings from our joint Tackling Inequalities conference in January 2023. The report has been published ahead of the upcoming second conference on 16 January 2024, which will focus on tackling inequalities through innovation and entrepreneurship. Hosted by the Royal Society of Medicine and NHS England, the first conference marked the launch of a multi-year programme tackling healthcare inequalities, focusing on Core20PLUS5's key clinical areas. This article delves into the conference's insights on addressing maternity inequalities.

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AI must not worsen health inequalities for ethnic minority populations - Promo

AI must not worsen health inequalities for ethnic minority populations

20 July 2023

Scientists are urging caution before artificial intelligence (AI) models such as ChatGPT are used in healthcare for ethnic minority populations.

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Dietary inequality under the spotlight at the RSM

26 June 2023

Speakers from the healthcare professions, academia and the charity sector addressed topics including why poverty leads to a poor diet, the future of community food provision and the experience of paediatricians in understanding the causes of food insecurity.

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Risk of long COVID higher for people living in most deprived areas

11 May 2023

New research has found that the risk of long COVID is strongly associated with area-level deprivation, with the odds of having long COVID 46% higher for people from the most deprived areas, compared to those in the least deprived areas.

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Clinical leadership is ‘mission critical’ to narrowing the health gap

12 January 2023

Professor Bola Owolabi calls on clinicians at Royal Society of Medicine conference to use their voices and influence to narrow the healthcare inequalities gap.

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Why cancer screening needs to target the most at risk

03 October 2022

Late diagnosis of cancer can be a death sentence. What can be done to spread screening more equally across the country?

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Don’t dismiss women’s concerns about heart disease, cardiologists told at RSM event

29 September 2022

The damaging impacts of treating women’s heart health less seriously than men’s were underlined at the end of a day-long ‘State of the Art’ Cardiology training event at the Royal Society of Medicine on Tuesday (27 September 2022).

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Inequalities ‘most significant threat’ to public health, warns Vice-President of Royal Society of Medicine

30 August 2022

Inequalities are the most significant threat to public health in the UK, a top doctor has warned ahead of a major conference at the Royal Society of Medicine.

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With health data at our fingertips, why don’t we know our blood pressure?

24 August 2022

Technology has put vast swathes of personal health data at our fingertips. We can monitor our weight, track exercise, measure sleep, count calories, so why don’t we routinely check our blood pressure? 

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Untangling the messiness of mental illness is key to tackling inequalities

03 August 2022

How we should deal with inequalities in severe mental illness is a uniquely challenging problem, but it is in everybody’s interests that we address this.

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When inequality is baked in before birth, it can’t remain a fringe concern

28 May 2022

Inequality shortens lives and severely impacts health outcomes, yet the evidence shows the health gap is widening. Doctors and patient advocates maintain that truly transformational change is possible if we begin to treat inequality as the urgent, serious health issue it is.

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Tackling inequalities: could Covid legacy be a great redistribution of health? Promo

Tackling inequalities: could Covid’s legacy be a great redistribution of health?

14 April 2022

The impact of COVID-19 highlighted inequalities in healthcare unlike ever before. Could this mean lasting change for the nation? 

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Austerity is worsening NHS waiting time inequality in Scotland

Research shows Scottish government’s progress on reducing NHS waiting time inequality is being reversed due to 2010 austerity measures.

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