Bambra, Clare;
Marmot, Michael;
(2024)
Restructuring of the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities is a further step in the wrong direction for tackling health inequalities.
BMJ: British Medical Journal
, 384
, Article q413. 10.1136/bmj.q413.
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Abstract
Last week, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) made big staff reductions at the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) as part of an internal restructuring. According to reports,1 this includes the loss of several senior and experienced officials—and some reports claim that OHID has been “decimated,” with up to 50% of the central workforce now cut.2 Concerns about these further reductions in England’s public health capacity post-covid have been expressed by sector leaders and by former health ministers James Bethell and Philip Hunt.2 The DHSC has responded to these reports to say that prevention will be embedded across DHSC—but questions remain about how this can be done with so few people left with any expertise, and about who now has leadership over reducing health inequalities.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Restructuring of the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities is a further step in the wrong direction for tackling health inequalities |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1136/bmj.q413 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q413 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author-accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Humans, Health Inequities, Health Promotion, Health Status Disparities, Socioeconomic Factors |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Epidemiology and Public Health |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10189750 |
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