IMAGINE the outrage if a newspaper ran a story stating that a million people in the UK had died from a treatable medical condition over the past five years. ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû1000¼¯ºÏ ministers would be interrogated, government enquiries promised – and the public would be left with a terrible feeling of unease.
But those people really did die, and from a preventable condition: health inequality. The scary but real figure came from Fair Society, ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû1000¼¯ºÏy Lives, the 2010 report I produced when asked by the UK government to review health inequalities, and was repeated in The ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû1000¼¯ºÏ Gap, my latest book. I…
