Health: Females

(asked on 2nd September 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to data produced by the ONS, Socioeconomic inequalities in avoidable mortality in England: 2019, released on 11 March 2021, what steps the Government is taking to tackle regional disparities in women's health outcomes in the context of women in the most deprived areas being 3.5 times more likely to die from an avoidable cause than those in the least deprived areas in England in 2019.


Answered by
Caroline Johnson Portrait
Caroline Johnson
This question was answered on 21st September 2022

The white paper, ‘Levelling Up the United Kingdom’, committed to improve healthy life expectancy by five years by 2035 and to reduce the gap between the locations where healthy life expectancy is highest and lowest by 2030.

Each integrated care partnership (ICP) is required to develop an integrated care strategy by December 2022 which states how the assessed local needs can be met through the integrated care board, partner local authorities or NHS England. This must include plans to reduce disparities in health access, experience and outcomes. Departmental regional teams are working with ICPs to ensure that these plans are comprehensive, ambitious and determined by the evidence on local need.

Work to improve health and wellbeing and how the health and care system engages with women and girls is underway, to ensure equitable access to and experience of services and that disparities in outcomes are reduced.

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