Clinical placements can give pharmacy students a real-life lesson in health inequalities

Teaching staff at the University of Nottingham School of Pharmacy say their practical placement pilot for second-year MPharm students should be adopted more widely to promote a reduction in health inequalities.
Illustration of two queues – one diverse and in a straight, level line at the bottom, the other white and privileged like an ascending line chart – meeting at a table where a student takes blood pressure readings, the queues melding as they exit.

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By the government’s own admission in its ‘Levelling up’ white paper, published in February 2022, the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened health inequalities in the UK, making them increasingly stark, “with hospital admission and mortality rates higher among more deprived groups”​[1]​.

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