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Equally Valued, a new podcast series from healthandcare.scot and the ALLIANCE

  • Area of Work: The ALLIANCE
  • Type: News Item
  • Published: 20th April 2022

Equally Valued speaks to voices from across the spectrum of health and social care in Scotland with a focus on an issue of the moment.

Equally Valued brings together the insights of the ALLIANCE, Scotland’s largest health and social care third sector organisation, with the journalism of healthandcare.scot. Each episode will focus on a particular issue affecting the health and care of individuals living in Scotland.

Health inequalities in Scotland have long been documented. After April 1st 2022, experts said these inequalities would begin to get much worse. There was no new pandemic coming, but our energy prices were going to rise by over 50% causing many to drop into fuel poverty and sending others even further into the uncertainty of whether they could eat or heat. For an unpaid carer or someone living with a long term condition, how do they handle this burden?

In this first episode of Equally Valued titled, ‘Fuelling Scotland’s health divide – the cost of spiralling energy prices,’ we speak to experts from across the spectrum of health and care to find out what the rising fuel costs mean for individuals most at risk and in need of support. From academics and third sector leaders to unpaid carers and professionals working on the front lines in communities, these voices provide an insight into the consequences of fuel poverty and what Scotland’s leaders need to do to help.

Listen to ‘Fuelling Scotland’s health divide – the cost of spiralling energy prices’ now on Anchor.FM.

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