Health inequalities

Dr Veena Raleigh, Senior Fellow at The King’s Fund, responds to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) excess winter mortality figures for 2018/19,

Veena Raleigh, Senior Fellow at The King’s Fund, responds to new reports from The Health Foundation and London School of Economics on mortality trends in the UK.

‘The government should make full use of all the levers at its disposal to tackle obesity,' says Sally Warren, Director of Policy.

The government must make a clear and urgent commitment to restoring £1 billion of real-terms per head cuts to the public health grant which enables local authorities to deliver vital preventive services that protect and improve health.