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Health inequalities

How health inequalities can impact on your clinical practice, service and community.

How to use these pages

  • New to health inequalities? Head to our awareness page, watch the webinar series and read the Frontline articles
  • Some experience of health inequalities but want to make a change? Start with taking action – data, and public and patient engagement. You will also gain inspiration from the webinar series
  • Fully engaged in health inequalities but want to have further impact and connect? Taking action, data and public and patient engagement are also for you. You can also join our iCSP to link with other services and discuss service improvement with a HI focus 

Understanding the impact of health inequalities

The first step is to learn more about what health inequalities are, how they are measured and why they matter.

Get the key information
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Health inequalities hub

Go to the hub on our virtual learning environment to find webinars, podcasts and rapid reads that can help you take action on equity in your physio practice.

Access the course
FL Dec 24 Health inequalities feature titled Transforming physiotherapy: act now on equity

Using data to improve services

Discover how population health data and service data can help you to meet the needs of your local population.

Dig into the data
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Co-production and community engagement

How you can use data on health inequalities to develop physiotherapy services that are equitable, accessible and responsive.

Use data to transform your service
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Improving patient access

What practical steps can you take to help you identify barriers to access and take action to reduce them?

Overcoming barriers to access
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Improving the patient experience

How can we ensure we are hearing the right voices and avoiding assumptions, to shape equitable services?

How to measure patient experience
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Improving patient outcomes

How equity can become a practical driver of better outcomes, greater engagement, smoother pathways and more sustainable services

Improving outcomes
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Health inequalities network

Join the discussion on the health inequalities iCSP network. Find news, events and resources, and collaborate to tackle inequalities in healthcare.

Join the network
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