Addressing Health Inequalities: A Guide for General Practitioners

The aim of this guidance is to demonstrate the ways in which GPs can positively influence the health inequalities among their local population as practitioners, commissioners and community leaders. It contains examples of good practice, relevant national guidance and links to useful tools and agencies. Primary care is innovative in its ways of working and has unique access to the heart of communities. These factors should encourage and inspire GPs that health inequalities are part of their core business and they have both the initiative and resources to devise local strategies to reduce them.