If you are poor and therefore more prone than others to ill-health, the NHS does little to equalise your chances. It is the shocking truth about an institution that sits at the core of our citizenship. A boy raised today in Gorton, east Manchester, can expect to die almost 15 years sooner than his Chelsea-born contemporary. This reality has remained largely unaltered by 67 years of the NHS.
But all this is changing. In Greater Manchester, a health revolution is under way. From April 2016, 600,000 Mancunians – the 20% most at risk of getting sick or being hospitalised – can expect a very different NHS. Instead of 10 minutes, once in a blue moon, with a harassed doctor offering a quick prescription, they will be offered regular, lengthy, one-to-one, personalised primary care to transform their health and their lives. Many currently on a downward spiral into deteriorating lung, heart and diabetic disease, as well as those with obesity-related illness, will enjoy a healthier future.
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