How ambulance services are helping to reduce health inequalities – video resources
On this page we feature a series of recordings focusing on the ambulance sector’s role in reducing health inequalities. Scroll down to view.
Health inequalities: In brief
This mini-series breaks down health inequalities into quick, practical guides to understanding and improving health equity.
Volunteering and health inequalities
(1 Feb 2024)
Implementation webinars
Each webinar covers a different topic relating to both the impact of health inequalities on the sector and its ability to contribute to our collective ambition to reduce these inequalities.
Topics include a deep dive into implementation resources, how to develop strategic leadership, and the contribution that ambulance service data can make to a system-wide understanding of population health needs.
RHI implementation webinar 7: Health inequalities at neighbourhood level
(18 November 2025)
Topics / timestamps
– National Neighbourhood Health Implementation Programme [NNHIP] (01:32) View slides
– Neighbourhood health in the context of the ambulance sector (25:52) (no slides)
– Integrated 999/111 collaborative (35:56) Slides to follow
– Social prescribing (50:39) Slides to follow
– Respiratory inequalities and Integrated Neighbourhood Health [INH] (1:07:06) View slides
– Discussion (1:36:39)
RHI implementation webinar 6: The relationship between patient safety and health inequalities
(11 July 2025)
Topics / timestamps
– The new patient safety healthcare inequalities framework (03:00) View slides
– Patient safety inequalities from an ambulance service perspective (19:00) View slides
– Health inequalities risk segmentation – an example from primary care (31:00)
RHI implementation webinar 5: Good practice showcase
(19 March 2025)
Topics / timestamps
– Health inequalities maturity matrix (01:53) View slides
– Health inequalities consensus statement evaluation (10:11) View slides
– Core20PLUS5 Ambassador presentations (36:04) View slides
– Ambulance data analysis – a partnership between NEAS & NECS (58:52) View slides
– System partnerships to reduce health inequalities in Wales (1:18:00) (Slides to follow)
RHI implementation webinar 4: The development of skills, education & learning in the ambulance sector
(20 November 2024)
Topics / timestamps
– Overview of training resources (missing from recording)
– EQUALS research project – (00:01)
– Public health capability development in NWAS (28:37) View slides
RHI implementation webinar 3: Working with system partners to reduce health inequalities
(10 July 2024)
Topics / timestamps
– Developing system partnerships to reduce health inequalities (1:49)
– System-level enablers for reducing health inequalities (13:54) View slides
– Commissioning with a health inequalities lens (52:08) View slides
– Sickle cell care improvement (1:18:55) View slides
RHI implementation webinar 2: Developing strategic leadership and the importance of data
(20 March 2024)
Topics / timestamps
– Making the case (1:40) View slides
– Developing leadership, capacity & capability (16:51) View slides
– Ambulance service data through a health inequalities lens (49:55)
– Scottish Ambulance Service case study (1:29:45) View slides
RHI implementation webinar 1: From consensus to implementation
(11 October 2023)
Topics / timestamps
– From consensus to implementation (2:40)
– Implementation resources (6:11)
– Public health strategic approach (EMAS) (14:30) View slides
– Implementation in action – a series of case studies:
— The ambulance service as an anchor organisation (26:29) View slides
— Data, insight & intelligence (48:08)
— The importance of volunteers (1:00:24) View slides
— Pathway redesign to reduce inequalities (1:07:29)
Board development sessions
Part of AACE’s board support offer to trusts on reducing health inequalities, these sessions outline practical tools to enable board members to support and champion the delivery of high quality, equitable patient care across the communities we serve.
Board development session: What is my role in reducing health inequalities through social value and access to ambulance care?
(2 April 2025)
Topics / timestamps
– Context setting (02:55)
– The impact of failure demand (06:38) View slides
– Social value (31:00) View slides
– Maturity matrix results (59:09) View slides
– Panel discussion (1:12:22)
Board development session: What is my role in reducing health inequalities?
(5 June 2024)
Topics / timestamps
– National policy perspective (00:01)
– Translating policy for the ambulance sector (16:50)
– Board-level objectives for reducing health inequalities (25:32)
– Understanding the impact of health inequalities (54:32)
View summary document with links and resources
Consensus launch event
(8 June 2023)
Topics / timestamps
– National context (03:20)
– Developing the consensus statement (14:48)
– The ambulance service perspective on health inequalities (28:50)
– Health inequalities – a partnership approach (38:56) View slides
– PTS and MECC & NWAS as an anchor organisation (52:27)
– Children & young people with asthma (1:02:04) View slides
– A public health approach to ambulance data (1:08:27) View slides
– Engaging with rough sleepers (1:14:49) View slides
– Building public health leadership, capacity & capability (1:23:28) View slides
Additional resources
Making Every Contact Count (MECC)
If you have any questions about this programme of work, please contact ruth.crabtree@nhs.net or hilary.pillin@aace.org.uk
