1. Engaging in Health Inequalities
Professor Mark Gamsu

2. What do we mean? Protected Characteristics? Inclusion Health?
Socio-Economic?

3. The widening mortality gap between the social classes
I - Professional
V - Unskilled
Average for
working age men *
2.9
times
greater
160
100 25
125 80 63 50 40 30
1.2 times greater
Log scale
Years
* excludes 1981
Note: These comparisons are based on social classes I & V only.
England and Wales. Men of working age (varies according to year, either aged 15 or 20 to age 64 or 65)
Source: Office for National Statistics

5. What We Know 5:

9. What has stopped action?
Legislation
Power
Who is round the table
Lack of clarity about action
Isolation and defensiveness
False expectations

10. Evidence and Voice
Cancer
Mental Health
Speak Up
General Practice

15. Engaging the NHS - bringing social context into General Practice
“There is no requirement for GPs to provide reports or offer an opinion on incapacity for work to anyone else, such as Citizens Advice Bureau. We have made it clear to Citizens Advice representatives that they should not involve GPs in the process.”
Sheffield Medical Committee

18. Healthwatch Sheffield - Speak Up Grants