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- Date
- 6 May 2025
- Location
- The King's Fund, London, W1G 0AN
- Price
- £95-£420 +VAT
- Social
- KFHealthInequalities
This is a past event
It is deeply unjust that some groups of people have significantly worse experiences of health and care than others. These differences in health experiences and outcomes are avoidable, unfair and systematic, and yet they continue to widen. Tackling health inequalities and improving health for the groups who typically experience the worst outcomes requires concerted action from across the health and care sector and more widely across government.
In the context of the government’s plans to develop a 10-year plan for health and its wider commitment to a mission-led approach to government, which includes a commitment to tackling the social determinants of health and halving the gap in healthy life expectancy between the richest and poorest regions in England, there is an opportunity to make a real difference to inequalities. This conference discussed how we seize that opportunity and make a difference now.
2025 event topics
This conference brought together those working in the health and care system across the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector, local government and beyond to explore how to deliver a ‘system shift’ on health inequalities – getting the levers right to make a difference to how the health and care system and its partners tackle health inequalities. It followed the publication of our recent long read, in which we reviewed more than one hundred pieces of work from The King’s Fund over the past five years involving a variety of people working in the NHS, local authorities, and the voluntary and private sectors, as well as people who experience the worst health outcomes. We identified seven key areas for action that we believe the new 10-year health plan should prioritise in order to better tackle health inequalities:
Develop a cross-government health inequalities strategy for the 10-year health plan to feed into.
Reorientate the NHS to focus on prevention.
Radically change the relationships the NHS has with people and communities, from ‘power over' to ‘power with'.
Tackle racism and discrimination in the NHS and cultivate a culture of compassion.
Enable staff to identify and act on health inequalities and capture learning.
Empower place-based partnerships to take more decisions about how NHS money is spent.
Actively support local voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations through changes in financial planning and commissioning.
At this event, we considered the opportunities and challenges facing the health and care system, and how we can make a meaningful impact on the seven key areas for action through empowering staff and communities and working in partnership.
Testimonials
'This conference was really interesting and I have no doubt that I will use what I have learnt in my day to day work going forwards.'
'Great event. Very personable and engaging. Very good balance of the case for change and how to go about making it happen.'
'This was my first time attending and I wasn't sure what to expect but thank you very much for organising an inspiring conference, it was great to hear from speakers sharing their insight and practical steps on how we can address health inequalities. I would highly recommend this!'
'Slickly run virtual conference that showcased some innovative ways people are addressing health inequalities from a multitude of stakeholders such as the NHS, ambulance service, local services, councils, government departments, consultants and academics.'
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2025 speakers
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Ashley Dalton MP
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Prevention, Department of Health and Social Care -
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Professor Bola Owolabi
Director, National Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme, NHS England -
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Professor Sanjay Agrawal
National Specialty Adviser for Tobacco Dependency, NHS England, Clinical Director for Prevention, NHS Midlands, Consultant in Respiratory and Intensive Care Medicine, and Trustee, Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) -
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Patricia Miller
Chief Executive, NHS Dorset -
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Dr Habib Naqvi
Chief Executive, NHS Race and Health Observatory -
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Linda Hindle
Deputy Chief Allied Health Professional for England and National Engagement Lead for Police, Fire and Ambulance Service Office for Health Improvement and Disparities -
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Dave Boulger
Associate Director for Population Health, NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care -
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Dr Sohail Abbas
Director, Population Health and Inequalities, Bradford District and Craven Health and Care Partnership, and Deputy Medical Director, NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
2025 programme
Tuesday, 6 May 2025
Join us from 10.00am for a day of interesting discussions, debates and networking with people from across the health and care system.
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