Delivering Race Equality in Mental Health

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Delivering Race Equality in Mental Health

• Northumberland, Tyne Wear Focused
  Implementation Site
• 2005 - 2008

Project Manager, Suzanne Thompson Hosted by
Gateshead Voluntary Organisations Council (GVOC)
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Delivering Race Equality in Mental Health 2010
VISION (12 Service Characteristics)

• less fear of mental health services
• increased satisfaction with services
• a reduction in the use of seclusion
• a reduction in the rate of admission to inpatient
  units
• the prevention of deaths in mental health
  services following physical intervention
• a reduction in the disproportionate rates of
  compulsory detention in inpatient units
• fewer violent incidents that are secondary to
  inadequate treatment of mental illness
• more users reaching self-reported states of
  recovery
• a reduction in the ethnic disparities found in
  prison populations
• a more balanced range of effective therapies
• a more active role for BME communities and
  service users in training, development of policy,
  planning and provision of services
• a workforce and organisation capable of
  delivering appropriate and responsive mental
  health services

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Delivering Race Equality in Mental Health How?

• 5 year action plan 2005 2010
• DRE
• Better, more responsive services
• (importance of working with clinicians)
• Better engagement of services with their local
  communities
• Better information

Delivering race equality in mental health care
an action plan, DH 2005
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Delivering Race Equality in Mental Health What
is a FIS?

• FIS to fast-track the DRE action plan
• Focused work on priority areas
• Identify and spread best practice
• Test out what works
• Facilitate and guide change
• Partnership working (all involved in providing
  mental health care)

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Delivering Race Equality in Mental Health
Northumberland, Tyne Wear
DRE Steering Group Chair Alan Hall, CE NTW
NHS Trust
Action Plan
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CDW and Service Outcomes

• Greater understanding ownership of the issues
  facing people from BME communities so that real
  improvement takes place in the commissioning and
  provision of mental health services across the
  full age range.P 4 CDW Interim guidance Dec 2004
• Individual CDW and Service Outcomes
• Are set out in Appendix D p5 ET Oct 2005

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CDWs Essential

• Without community engagement it will not be
  possible for individual care plans/treatments and
  local services to be designed around and capable
  of meeting the needs and aspirations of all
  racial and cultural groups within the local
  community
• P5 - 6 CDW Interim Guidance 2004

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Importance of the Local Support

• On their own, CDWs cannot deliver all the help
  and support required by BME communities
• They will need the help and support of the BME
  community, their colleagues at work including
  their employers and the PCT Race Equality Leads
  as well as other relevant stakeholders p 5 CDW
  ET Guidance 2005

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CDW Network Northumberland, Tyne Wear
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Delivering Race Equality in Mental Health Finally

• ..Thank you
• Suzanne Thompson
• Project Manager hosted by GVOC (Gateshead
• Voluntary Organisations Council)
• suzannethompson_at_gvoc.org.uk
• Tel [phone]