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Identify key stakeholders, review evidence, and assess resources, skills, and capacity to ensure engagement is inclusive, targeted, and capable of addressing health inequalities effectively. Measure ...

Inclusion is vital to ensuring that everyone in communities that experience health and care inequalities feels valued, respected and able to contribute in a way that works for them. This ensures that ...

Identify and prioritise populations most affected by health inequalities to target engagement and interventions effectively. Identifying affected populations is key to tackling health inequalities, ...

This self-assessment and improvement framework is for integrated care systems (ICSs). It's a voluntary resource to support ICSs in reducing health inequalities by improving the way they engage with ...

Learn from what works and what doesn’t to improve future engagement practices and outcomes. Regular reflection on engagement activities highlights successes and areas for improvement in addressing ...

Define a clear purpose to align engagement with community needs and reduce health inequalities. A clear purpose ensures transparency, accountability, and focused action on health inequalities. It ...

Accessibility is crucial to ensuring that people in communities who experience health and care inequalities have an equal opportunity to participate (in accordance with the Equality Act 2010). This ...

Act on engagement findings to deliver meaningful, equitable improvements in health outcomes. Acting on findings from engagement embeds health inequalities as a priority in decision-making. Systematic ...

Allocating resources to ensure equitable engagement, prioritising accessibility, and addressing barriers faced by under-served communities experiencing health inequalities. Dedicated resourcing ...

The self-assessment and improvement framework is designed to support improvement – not assurance. It supports your ICS to have honest conversations, discover learning, and develop practical actions to ...

Lived experience roles build trust, ensure relevance and help provide authentic insights as part of working with people and communities experiencing health inequalities. This leads to more effective, ...