Steps GPs can take to tackle health inequalities, with Professor Bola Owolabi
Talking General Practice
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The Business Case for Tackling Health Inequalities
I think we need to understand very clearly that there is a solid business case for tackling health inequalities. People from the most deprived communities and some of our ethnic minority communities develop long-term conditions earlier. So you can see how people therefore exit the workforce sooner. We lose tax revenue. We lose community capital that they bring by being active members of their community. And if we don't take out the fuel of health inequalities, we will always be fighting the fires of NHS pressures. Our scientists are listeners to the British Red Cross report titled, nowhere next to turn.
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