A senior NHS official has called on medical professionals to consider a pay cut to help create a fairer society.
Dr Linda de Caestecker, director of public health for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, said fresh ideas were needed to tackle health inequalities.
Her second biennial report highlights the gap in health and life expectancy between the rich and the poor.
She is reported to have said she would be prepared to take a drop in her own salary.
Dr de Caestecker, who is understood to earn about £142,000 a year, said: “It is well known that the larger the difference in income between the affluent and more deprived people in a community, the higher the level of almost every modern social, environmental and health problem.”
She said it was important to plan now to ensure that economic recovery comes about in a way that will support equality and sustainability.
Her report, An Unequal Struggle for Health, did show improvements in the health of people living in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area.
Read more at BBC Health.
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