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Minority ethnic women in the North of England face a lifetime of inequalities that stretch from childhood and maternity care to employment, mental health and later life, according to a new report by Health Equity North released today (Wednesday, 7^th October, 2026).

The report, ‘Woman of the North: Closing the health gap for minority ethnic women’ found that racial discrimination, poverty and regional underinvestment combine to produce significantly worse outcomes in the North than elsewhere in England,…