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Over 155 organisations urge Health and Social Care Secretary to publish health disparities white paper
The AAPT have signed a letter to Dr Thérèse Coffey ahead of Conservative party conference this weekend
Over 155 members of the Inequalities in Health Alliance (IHA), including the AAPT, have signed a letter to Dr Thérèse Coffey ahead of Conservative party conference this weekend urging the secretary of state for health and social care to maintain the commitment to publishing a Health Disparities White Paper (HDWP) by the end of this year.
Convened by the Royal College of Physicians, the IHA (a coalition of representing patients, communities, doctors, nurses, public health and social care professionals, dentists, pharmacists, academics, local authorities and other) says the HDWP is a vital opportunity for government to set out how every Department will work together to tackle the factors that cause ill health in the first place such as poor housing, lack of educational opportunity, child poverty, communities and place, employment, racism and discrimination, transport and air pollution.
Despite the commitment to a HDWP in the Levelling Up white paper earlier this year, it was not mentioned in the ‘Our Plan for Patients’ document published by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) last week.