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Health inequalities in health protection report

The state of health inequalities in the UK, and how UKHSA aims to make health protection fair.

• From: UK Health Security Agency
• Published: 2 May 2025
• Last updated: 27 May 2025
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  1. 27 May 2025

     Main report: infectious diseases, geography, admissions number corrected. Supplementary tables: Table 4 in Fig_4 tab amended to align with correct ICS names.

  2. 14 May 2025

     Amended the sentence on respiratory admissions attributable to inequalities associated with deprivation to include both comparisons, 1) between the most and least deprived deprivation quintiles only, and 2) calculated as if all deprivation quintiles had the same admissions as the least deprived quintile.

  3. 12 May 2025

     Infectious diseases section, deprivation, second paragraph, changed 260,000 to 128,000, that is “Respiratory infections had the greatest inequality, with an estimated additional 128,000 admissions due to inequalities associated with deprivation (Figure 1).” This was a change in methodology not updated and is aligned with previously published estimates. Under ethnicity, inserted link: “guidance from the Race Disparity Unit”.

  4. 2 May 2025

     First published.

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This report shares the latest data on health inequalities in the UK.