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While policy makers and pundits agonise about the future of the NHS a glaring injustice is side-lined. This is the injustice of health inequalities. Inequalities in health are no accident. They are the result of a failure right across the breadth of public policy. We know what causes them, we know what we need to do to put them right.
Thousands of words have been written and uttered about this disgrace. Even Theresa May told us in her opening speech as Prime Minister that she was committed to fighting the “burning injustice that, if you’re born poor, you will die on average 9 years earlier” than average - and indeed, you will die 25 years earlier than the very richest in our society.
