The King's Fund podcast

The cost-of-living crisis: is the nation’s health paying the price?

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Episode notes

Anna Charles speaks to Torsten Bell, Chief Executive of the Resolution Foundation, Helen Barnard, Associate Director at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Marie Gabriel CBE, Chair of North East London Integrated Care System and Cormac Russell, Founding Director of Nurture Development, to find out how the cost-of-living crisis is impacting the nation’s health and wellbeing, and what the health and care system can do in response. 

If you've been affected by any of the issues raised in this podcast, we've put together a list of organisations that can offer advice, guidance and support. 

Related resources

• Poverty and the health and care system: The role of data and partnership in bringing change (long read)
• Time for action on poverty: practical steps for the NHS and its partners (free online event)
• The NHS's role in tackling poverty (commissioned report)