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Amol Rajan and guests discuss health inequalities in the UK, why they exist and how they might be reduced. Is now the time to bring about a fundamental shift? Show more
Rethink Fairness is the latest chapter in Radio 4 s Rethink project that ran throughout last year. It is a series of five discussions spread over one week at the start of the new year, presented by Amol Rajan. Its focus is fairness, a theme that emerged time and again in the conversations and essays of 2020. The pandemic brought renewed focus on health outcomes across social and racial groups and raised questions about whether our care and health system performed differently across the country and, if so, why? Those concerns are not new, but might now be the time to bring about a fundamental shift and rethink how we might make the situation fairer?
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