Part 4 - Health
6.Sections 21 to 24 amend provisions in the GLA Act 1999 relating to health. Section 21 provides for the appointment of a Health Adviser and one or more Deputy Health Advisers to the Authority. Section 22 imposes a duty on the Mayor to prepare and publish a health inequalities strategy. Section 23 requires the Authority to consider the effects that any proposed exercise of its general power, under section 30 of the 1999 Act, would have on health inequalities between persons living in London. Where it exercises its powers it must do so in a way which is best calculated to promote the reduction of those inequalities. Section 24 requires the Mayor to have regard to the effect his proposed strategies or revisions to those strategies would have on health inequalities between persons living in London. It requires the Mayor, in preparing or revising his strategies, to include policies and proposals best calculated to promote the reduction of such health inequalities.
