More than health care: why the NHS is a force for tackling poverty

More than health care: why the NHS is a force for tackling poverty As the Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted existing health inequalities in UK society, it has also renewed a focus on poverty. People experiencing poverty are at the deep end of health inequalities, and are also more likely to be a part of minoritised groups who also experience health inequalities as a result of, for example, race, gender and disability. It’s important that work addressing health inequalities is also explicit about the impact of poverty, because those affected by poverty have a high risk of the worst health outcomes. The King's Fund