The Mayor of London The London Assembly

Snapshot of Health Inequalities in London

This report provides a snapshot of health inequalities in London based on available data sources and a shared overarching narrative that relevant partners can use in their work.

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Description and Purpose

This snapshot report provides a high-level overview of major inequalities issues affecting Londoners in a ready-to-use accessible powerpoint and PDF format.

Our hope is that this can :

(1) be used as a platform for partnership work on inequalities across the capital

(2) help highlight key gaps in intelligence that would help improve our understanding of inequalities

(3) be used as a tool to advocate for the need for action to address health inequalities in London.  

This is however only a snapshot of inequalities in London and not intended to comprehensively cover all inequalities issues affecting London, every inequality dimension or factor driving inequalities in London

Audience

This is a resource intended for health leaders, analysts, officers, and policy makers from local and regional government, integrated care systems, NHS, academia, VCS organisations and partners across London to support their work to address inequalities by helping

(1) Frame discussions with system partners 

(2) Engage communities 

(3) Identify data sources on a given topic 

(4) Advocate for the need for action to address health inequalities

Development of the resource

Greater London Authority (GLA) Health, GLA City Intelligence Unit, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities London (OHID), Association of Directors of Public Health London (ADPH), NHSE and Institute of Health Equity (IHE) have collaboratively produced this report, as part of the Building the Evidence (BTE) programme of work

The sources of data available and topics included have been identified from existing published data, working in partnership through iterative discussion 

There is no current plan for periodic updates of this resource, though this will be discussed on completion of this programme of work

Full resources can be found on the London Datastore.