Tackling health inequalities: The missing delivery mechanisms in national health missions

In recent years, both of the UK's largest political parties have sought to orientate their policy offering around missions. Both have made explicit commitments to tackle the country's geographic health inequalities. In their starkest form, health inequalities – whether based on race, class, gender, geography and so on – will mean that those at the wrong end have, on average, fewer years to live and worse health when alive. In comparison to London and the South East, a baby born in the North East will live three years fewer, while the north of England as a whole has 144 extra infant deaths a year.