Guidance

Health Inequalities Leadership Framework: board assurance tool scorecard

Assess progress on each of the five national priorities for health inequalities improvement.

21 February 2023

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This scorecard can be used with the board assurance tool or as a simple scorecard on its own to assess progress on each of the five national priorities for health inequalities improvement:

  1. Restoring NHS services inclusively
  2. Mitigating against ‘digital exclusion’
  3. Ensuring datasets are complete and timely
  4. Accelerating preventative programmes 
  5. Strengthening leadership and accountability

Leadership action on health inequalities

The Leadership Framework for Healthcare Inequalities Improvement programme is an NHS England and Improvement (NHSEI) programme to ensure that the NHS better prevents and responds to the health inequalities which many communities experience. This is particularly important as the NHS continues to recover and reset from the COVID-19 pandemic, which has exacerbated and highlighted these long-standing inequalities

The NHS Confederation has been commissioned to deliver a key component of this work, to provide support and guidance on stronger NHS leadership action on health inequalities as defined in the NHS Long Term Plan. Find out more.