Impacts of rising cost of living on London

<p> <strong>Description and Purpose</strong> </p> <p> <span style="color: black;">This data companion pack is a resource intended to frame and be read alongside the </span> <a href="https://www.instituteofhealthequity.org/resources-reports/evidence-review-cost-of-living-and-health-inequalities-in-london/click-here-to-read-the-report.pdf" target="_blank" style="color: black;">linked rapid review of evidence for interventions to address the&nbsp;cost of living&nbsp;crisis</a> <span style="color: black;"> </span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(available on the Institute of Health Equity website)</span> <span style="color: black;">.</span> </p> <p> <span style="color: black;">The resource provides intelligence and context on the&nbsp;cost of living&nbsp;crisis&nbsp;in London&nbsp;only, while the accompanying rapid&nbsp;</span>review of evidence for interventions to mitigate the impacts of the rising cost of living on London, contains the recommendations&nbsp;for action.<span style="color: black;">​</span> </p> <ol> <li> <span style="color: black;">This pack is intended to provide a high-level overview of the impacts of the costs of living crisis on London and the need Londoners have for support to deal with the&nbsp;cost of living&nbsp;crisis through&nbsp;</span>intelligence available in the public domain.&nbsp;</li> <li>This pack identifies how certain groups in the population already experiencing health inequalities are at greatest risk of poverty and worsening health due to the cost of living crisis.</li> <li>Given there are significant gaps in intelligence available, this pack also highlights these gaps&nbsp;and limitations in our understanding.</li> </ol> <p> <strong>Audience</strong> </p> <p> <span style="color: black;">It will be useful for health leaders, analysts, officers, and policy makers from local and regional government, integrated care systems, NHS,&nbsp;</span>academia, VCS organisations and partners across London to support their work to address the costs of living crisis by<span style="color: black;">​</span> </p> <ul> <li> <span style="color: black;">Advocating for the need for action to address the rising cost of living given impacts on health and health inequalities&nbsp;​</span> </li> <li> <span style="color: black;">Framing the context for the interventions highlighted in the linked rapid review of interventions​</span> </li> <li> <span style="color: black;">Engaging communities&nbsp;​</span> </li> </ul> <p> <strong>​Development of</strong> <strong style="color: black;"> this resource</strong> </p> <p>The Institute of Health Equity (IHE), Greater London Authority (GLA) Health, GLA City Intelligence Unit, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities London (OHID),&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Association of Directors of Public Health London (ADPH),&nbsp;and </span>NHSE have collaboratively produced this report, as part of the Building the Evidence (BTE) programme of work</p> <ul> <li>The sources of data available and topics included have been identified from existing published data, working in partnership through iterative discussion&nbsp;</li> <li> <span style="color: black;">The resource is provided in PDF and PowerPoint format to support colleagues in their work to</span> </li> <li> <span style="color: black;">There is no current plan for periodic updates of this resource, though this will be discussed on completion of this programme of work</span> </li> </ul>