Prof Donald Hirsch: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- Professor at Loughborough University
- Quoted on
- Health inequalities
- Press citations held
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 8 Sept 2026
“We spend a lot more on the NHS now than in 2014, and if the fraction attributable to poverty were the same, the cost would have risen to nearly £50bn. In fact it could be much higher, since far more people are experiencing severe hardship, including hunger and destitution, which could have strengthened the links between poverty and ill health, and hence higher health spending.”
Where Prof Donald Hirsch has been quoted
- Britain’s ‘medieval’ health inequality is devastating NHStheguardian.com · 8 Sept 2026
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