New research shows the idea of the ‘postcode lottery’ was first used in 1997 to express concern about how access to NHS drugs and treatment varied from place to place. But its meaning has since ...

Anna Matheson receives funding from Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand, Te Pūnaha Matatini - the Aotearoa NZ Centre of Research Excellence in complex systems, Health Research Council of New Zealand. In ...

Specialists say the health postcode lottery is rampant when it comes to trauma care. The South Island was bearing the brunt of a funding shortfall, according to a New Zealand Medical Journal editorial ...

"II you're a fisherman in North Shields or a financier in Canary Wharf in London, you should have an equal shot at a cure and at survival from cancer." That's the message from health minister Zubir ...

A Bucks MP whose friend died by suicide has called for an end to the mental health “postcode lottery” which mothers face when they give birth. Laura Kyrke-Smith, MP for Aylesbury, proposed a new law, ...

We talk about the NHS in England as though it’s a singular, discernible service. But it isn’t. As data released late last year shows, trusts working under the umbrella of the NHS operate to ...

Patients in deprived and underserved areas, will receive potentially lifesaving, earlier cancer diagnosis through a new £200 million scheme to tackle postcode lotteries in cancer care. Did you know ...