Health inequalities: Sunak is urged to honour government’s pledge

Health leaders have urged the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, to honour commitments to tackle health inequalities that were a key part of the Conservatives’ 2019 manifesto pledge on “levelling up.”During her short spell as prime minister last month, Liz Truss cut the cross government Health Promotion Taskforce from the Cabinet committee structure as she sought to slim down the government.1 The taskforce was established in 2021 by Boris Johnson’s government to drive a coordinated effort to improve the nation’s health and to support economic recovery and reduction of social and economic imbalances across England. It sat within the Cabinet Office and was chaired by the health secretary.It was also reported that Truss’s government had decided not to publish the long promised health disparities white paper2 and was planning to water down policy commitments on smoking and obesity,34 prompting healthcare leaders to question the government’s commitment to tackling health inequalities.In the…
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