Ahead of proposed legislative changes, Dr Jonathan Steel, RCP lead fellow for social care, discusses the importance of locally owned models of care in enabling integration.

Following the Chancellor’s Spending Review, RCP president Professor Andrew Goddard reflects on the sticking plaster for social care, the absence of public health, and the need to tackle health inequality at home and abroad.

Adam Croom, policy and external affairs officer at Asthma UK and the British Lung Foundation, explores the ways in which health inequalities are particularly acute for those with lung conditions.

We spoke to Hayley Hall, a member of our Patient and Carer Network (PCN), about the need to keep the conversation flowing around health qualities.

Professor Rachel Batterham, RCP special adviser on obesity, explores the link between health inequalities and obesity.

Dr Sanjay Agrawal is chair of the RCP’s Tobacco Special Advisory Group. In this blog he explores the link between health inequalities and smoking.

Dr Pippa Medcalf FRCP MBE is the RCP’s lead fellow for health inequalities and inclusion health. In this blog she explores the link between health inequalities and homelessness.

Professor Sir Michael Marmot, director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity, reflects on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on health inequalities.

Dr Raja Reddy from Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust outlines an innovative project for the ambulatory management of spontaneous pneumothorax.

Change in the NHS can be slow. Here Dr Binita Kane explains how clinicians, patients and strong strategic leadership are coming together to make a difference.