Rosa McNamara

Poverty and social deprivation affect health from birth to death, with morbidity increasing, mortality occurring earlier, and access to appropriate healthcare worsening along the gradient from affluent to poor. People in poverty are less likely to experience a ‘good death’. French et al 1 highlight how social deprivation affects a critical stage of care: hospital transfer at the end of life.

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2535-2657Mary Dawood1,2, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7803-0483Rosa McNamara2 1 Emergency Department, Imperial College NHS Trust, London, UK 2 Emergency Department, St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland Correspondence to Ms Mary Dawood, Emergency Department, Imperial College NHS Trust, London W2 1NY, UK; mary.dawood{at}nhs.net Statistics from Altmetric.com Request Permissions If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which...

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2535-2657Mary Dawood1,2, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7803-0483Rosa McNamara2 1Emergency Department, Imperial College NHS Trust, London, UK 2Emergency Department, St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland Correspondence to Ms Mary Dawood, Emergency Department, Imperial College NHS Trust, London W2 1NY, UK; mary.dawood{at}nhs.net Statistics from Altmetric.com Request Permissions If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which...