A major birth cohort study tracing the lives of 10,000 Liverpool families to enable researchers, clinicians and policymakers to understand more about complex health issues has opened. Children Growing Up in Liverpool (C-GULL) is the first large scale birth cohort study in the Liverpool City Region, and will track 10,000 first born babies and their […]
Data-driven technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) are powerful tools demonstrating potential in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases such as skin cancer. Yet these could inadvertently worsen the health inequalities experienced by minority ethnic groups if current challenges such as biased algorithms, poor data collection and a lack of diversity in research and development are […]
Hope of tackling health inequalities relies on action across government: Commenting on the letter sent to the Prime Minister from the Inequalities in Health Alliance (IHA), to which the NHS Confederation is a signatory, calling for an explicit cross-government health inequalities strategy, Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said: “The vaccination program has […]