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While health inequalities may have declined under Labour, specific interventions have not had a significant impact

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There is ongoing discussion about how the government’s planned reorganisation will affect the NHS and therefore health inequalities. But how effective has the NHS been at reducing health inequalities in recent years? Joan Costa-Font, Cristina Hernández-Quevedo, and Alistair McGuire of LSE Health have found that while health inequalities have decreased in the past decade, often costly interventions in specific areas appear to have had little effect.

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http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/37534/1/blogs.lse.ac.uk-While_health_inequalities_may_have_declined_under_Labour_specific_interventions_have_not_had_a_signif.pdf

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