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Baroness Alexander of Cleveden has engaged on health and social care through five debate speeches, with particular focus on health inequalities and healthy life expectancy. She highlighted a Health Foundation report showing that mortality rates in northern regions of the UK were 20% higher than the south-west by 2021, and called for a new government health inequality strategy targeting areas with the poorest outcomes. She also raised broader concerns about the challenges facing medical professionals in evidence-based decision-making within complex clinical areas.

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“…There is common ground here that on top of those pressures come spending pressures of an ageing population and the need to raise defence spending. All that requires a Government willing to face up to those headwinds, and I believe that is what we are seeing. Our times demand serious responses.”

Record by topic

  1. Health inequalities121st of 2884.0
  2. Elderly care & frailty166th of 2362.0
  3. Public health & prevention573rd of 6882.0

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  • “…In light of this, will the Government heed the Health Foundation’s call for a new health inequality strategy that has a particular focus on those parts of the country that have faced long-term industrial decline?…”

    Healthy Life Expectancy · 2025-05-20 · Read on Hansard ↗

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