Thousands of women are being urged to attend NHS breast screening appointments as new figures today show that, despite a slight increase in uptake in the last year, over a third of women still did not take up the potentially lifesaving offer.
Partha Kar discusses inequalities in diabetes care in his role as Director of Equality, Medical Workforce at NHS England – highlighting that deprivation and ethnicity are two separate but linked issues. Both need addressing now, he says.