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Sajid Javid promises health shake-up to fight ‘disease of disparity’

Minister says ‘levelling up’ efforts will start with redressing imbalance in healthcare services

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Sajid Javid has pledged a new approach to public health to tackle the “disease of disparity”, after he admitted the coronavirus pandemic had laid bare the UK’s underlying health inequalities.

The health secretary said the virus had proved that life chances varied greatly depending on where a person lived, and during the pandemic healthy people were getting healthier and unhealthy people unhealthier. “We need to reverse that trend,” he said.

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