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People experiencing poverty are at the deep end of health inequalities, and are also more likely to be a part of minoritised groups who also experience health inequalities as a result of, for example, race, gender and disability. It’s important that work addressing health inequalities is also explicit about the impact of poverty, because those affected by poverty have a high risk of the worst health outcomes. Author Deborah Fenney.
https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/blogs/nhs-tackling-poverty
Given the depth and scale of poverty today, I feel strangely optimistic about the NHS’s ability to tackle both poverty and poverty stigma, despite the concerns I set out in my earlier blog about how the NHS contributes to the stigma that surrounds adult poverty. There are clear signs that the NHS is more than capable of doing this work, and in some cases has already begun. Authoir Julia Cream.
https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/blogs/optimistic-nhs-ability-tackle-poverty
Quarter of 11-to-15-year-olds have now tried vaping according to bombshell NHS England figures.
NHS survey of school pupils finds one in 10 regularly vape as NHS leader Matt Fagg warns they risk ‘becoming hooked on one of the world’s most addictive substances’ from Martin Bagot, Daily Mirror
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/quarter-11-15-year-olds-33914291