This document sets out The King's Fund's consultation response to the Mayor of London's draft health inequalities strategy. Overall, the draft is a good start, but we believe as the strategy is finalised its commitments need to be more tightly focused on inequality reduction than they currently are.
This consultation response includes the following overarching observations. First, it is vital that reform addresses the significant overall underfunding of adult social care and the high levels of unmet need. Second, the challenge is not simply about responding to additional numbers of older people. It is also about addressing the ...