Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce kidney disease-related health disparities.

NHS England has developed the Core20PLUS5 framework to tackle healthcare inequalities. Core20PLUS5 focusses on improving key conditions in the most deprived quintile, 20% of the population, along with ethnic minority communities and socially excluded groups. The Core20PLUS population approach to healthcare inequalities has a focus on risk factors for kidney disease, which include hypertension.