A report by the Nuffield Trust and the Health Foundation showed that while health inequalities persist between the richest and poorest people in England, pressure on the NHS may be widening the care gap, with poorer people more likely to wait over four hours in A&E and less likely to get a good service from GPs.
In health tech news, NHS Lanarkshire unveiled impressive plans for what it has billed as Scotland’s first digital hospital, while in England NHS Digital launched an NHS login toolkit for developers wanting to use the service and NHSX continued its recruitment drive.