Are you asking me how health inequality has been tackled?
It's been high on the agenda since devolution and I see progress. Free perceptions were useful but bear in mind those in most need already got free prescriptions, however for those just over the cut off it has been invaluable.
Education doesn't just happen in a school setting. Lots of work involves health professionals going into the community and reaching the hard to reach people most in need of the advice. That's about getting dentists, dieticians, (nhs), fitness experts (through councils) into these settings and talking with, not to, people.
That's happening the length and breadth of the country, and if you haven't noticed that's great, you obviously aren't the target audience.
I didn't last week, using money awarded from the nhs, in a community centre speaking to young single mothers making lentil soup and spag bol. Something none of them had ever done before.
That was one week of a six week programme targeted, the funding amount was £6k including rent,wages, supplies ect, creche for their kids and refunding transport costs.
Now, if half of them go away at the end and cook from scratch like that even just once a week it's worth it. I'll spend more time at the end trying to quantify all that work.
So that's the nhs funding pockets of work like that to take steps to tackle the problems. And fuck me they are baby steps but that's the way it is. If I marched into one of these women's houses and said you, stop smoking, cook, get exercising, blah blah blah they would quite rightly slam they door in my face.
Breaking generations of habit isn't easy and doesn't happen quickly.