The associations between where you live and your health outcomes are increasingly understood. Healthy life expectancy is more than 18 years lower for people living in the most deprived areas compared with the least deprived.1

Some of this, but certainly not all, is related to the quality of your healthcare. In 2020, Quality Watch, a joint venture funded by the Nuffield Trust and the Health Foundation, found that long waits for emergency care were greater in the most deprived areas.2 They also found that rates of admissions for pressure sores, a largely preventable quality indicator, were three times higher in the most deprived areas. There is …