http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2810%2962078-8/fulltext?rss=yes

The Lancet remembers well the genuine excitement we felt at the commitment that the Labour government made in 1997 to attack health inequalities in Britain. The dismal record of the Conservatives before them—who hated the very idea of inequalities, preferring instead “variations” in health—left a deep scar on the National Health Service. The creation of Donald Acheson's Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health was a new opportunity to recalibrate the health service to meet the needs of the most deprived communities in the UK. Our sense of hope was, it turned out, misplaced. Labour presided over 13 years of failure. Inequalities in health widened despite huge investment in the NHS. The reasons for this failure have now been exposed in an astonishingly candid report, published last week by the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee. This committee examines how taxpayers' money is spent. It is chaired by a Labour Member of Parliament, Margaret Hodge. She has produced a tale of decrepitude at every level of the health system. .... To leave, manage or join list: https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=sdoh&A=1