1/8, thread. This is so welcome from @NHSConfed and its members, recognition FROM WITHIN that the #NHS needs to step up on #healthinequalities, in all its forms and FAR BEYOND ITS TREATMENT ROLE but needs help and support to do so. https://www.nhsconfed.org/supporting-members/nhs-reset/themes/health-inequalities

2/8. This is not now a minority sport, that means significant not marginal change can happen if members stick to the course.

3/8. This is about #race and #ethnicity, and how the #NHS now responds

4/8. It's also about 'class', an old-fashioned word, but one which needs to be addressed in how the NHS 'sees' the world and its scope of action and influence.

5/8. NHS leaders recognise they need help.

6/8. They also need:
- local flexibility and stronger accountability
- better engagement with communities (inc learning from work from @PHE_uk on community-centred approaches to health i.e. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/community-centred-public-health-taking-a-whole-system-approach)
- signal that this is at the heart of what ICS/PCNs etc ARE FOR

7/8. It also means that the #NHS #voice can be immensely powerful on this if it sings as a choir, to an audience including those in place, the media and in government. On the latter, this currently should include about influencing #levellingup.

8/8. In sum, i really welcome this statement of intent from @NHSConfed & its members on #healthinequalities. It reecognises both much to do, and much that can be done. If this sticks, if actions follow & crucially if NHS leaders continue to speak up & out, change will accelerate.