Labour Party Conference 2025, private roundtable: Delivering the 10 Year Plan in Health Inequalities: productivity, mental and physical health across the life course.

Speakers:

• Chair: Hannah Davies, CEO of the NHSA and Executive Director of Health Equity North
• Debbie Abrahams, MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth
• Anna Dixon MP for Shipley
• Dr Luke Munford, Academic Co-director of Health Equity North and Senior Lecturer in Health Economics, The University of Manchester
• Dr Mandy Dixon of the Northern Health Science Alliance, Professor Chris Todd of The University of Manchester, Professor Alan Walker of The University of Sheffield) and Professor Ilaria Bellantuono of The University of Sheffield.
• Northern Health Science Alliance’s Ageing North group and Health Equity North.
• Representatives from the University of Liverpool, The Work Foundation, Centre for Ageing Better, Durham University, Northern powerhouse Partnership, University of Manchester, University of Sheffield, IPPR North, Yorkshire Cancer Research and Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

The roundtable will consider how joined-up strategies can deliver better health and employment outcomes across the life course, especially through preventative approaches, early interventions, and regional innovation.  The event will focus on our Health for Wealth report which shows that productivity is lower in the North, largely due to poorer health outcomes, and ‘Ageing in the North’ report which found that  targeted investment has the potential to reduce or recover as much as £10.9 billion in lost productivity costs, £315 million in NHS costs from falls and hip fractures, and £588 million in NHS costs from treating conditions resulting from poor housing.  

If you would like more information about this event please contact charlotte.thompson@thenhsa.co.uk