9/ Our briefing shows that while health isn’t formally devolved, mayors and combined authorities can play a powerful role in tackling inequalities.

Explore our 10 lessons and case studies in full here: www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...

8/ Building wider understanding of health inequalities in a region helps embed successful programmes. The GLA Public Health Unit promotes this through online resources, webinars and masterclasses.

7/ Integration across services is vital but hard. Mayors can help, but success depends local authorities, NHS, schools, the police and others working together. GMCA’s Working Well improves integration with single contact points and local integration plans

6/ Mayors’ convening powers aid cross-sector collaboration. In South Yorkshire, Mayor Oliver Coppard chairs the Integrated Care Partnership, using this role to secure buy-in for the Beds for Babies programme.

5/ The case studies provide 10 lessons as to how mayors and strategic authorities can address health inequalities. Some highlights include...

4/ Our policy briefing looks at three case studies where devolved powers have been used to address health inequalities

➡️‘Beds for Babies: Safe Space to Sleep’, in South Yorkshire
➡️‘Working Well’, in Greater Manchester
➡️‘Taking a “health in all policies” approach’, in Greater London

3/ Although health is not a devolved function within England, many regional mayors have identified addressing health inequalities as an important objective and the government now plans to confer a new statutory health improvement and health inequalities duty on all mayoral strategic authorities.

2/ There are stark health inequalities in England. In 2021–23, male healthy life expectancy was seven years longer in London than in the North East. Within London, male healthy life expectancy ranged from 57.8 years in Lewisham to 69.5 years in Richmond upon Thames.