Approach to promotingrace equality in the PCT

LEADERSHIP

LINKS: policies & Joint working

SUSTAINING CHANGES: cycle of planning

Approach to promoting race equality in a PCT

• Leadership: • Internal (individual or group)

• External (e.g. SHA or the Healthcare Commission)

• Links and joint working: • Race equality and NSF• Race equality and The NHS Implementation Plan• Race equality and nGMS• Race equality and IWL

• Sustaining change:cycle of planning• Planning & delivery e.g. LDP• Commissioning and review e.g. SLAs • Performance management/corporate & clinical

governance • Staff employment & development

Using Maslow’s Hierarchy-of-needs to motivate healthcare development

Developing basics: interpreting, translation, diet, multi-faith facilities. Planning and providing targeted services for specific high prevalence diseases or conditions such as Diabetes, CHD.

Developing other services: replicate and systematically transfer learning and good practice to generic

services. The Guide is a very helpful tool.

Growth: less need for targeted services; race equality being mainstreamed and integrated in planning, commissioning and performance management, & in

functions (e. g. employment)

Structure we used for self assessment of progress

Commissioning Public HealthServices

Voluntary sector

Nursing Primary Care

RES Steering GroupRES Steering Group

Training & Development HRCommunication

 

 User & Community Involvement Clinical

Governance 

Highlights

• Commitment of Steering Group members essential.

• The Guide and Framework:• Provided legitimacy • Put race equality on organisational map • Provoked dialogue and discussion• Was comprehensive and rigorous

• Self-assessment Process provoked further rethinking & resulted in:

• Health Equity audits of smoking cessation and podiatry• Race equality embedded in annual work plan of clinical

governance & clinical audit• Review of uptake of clinical training and development

opportunities• Integration of equality questions in job interviews

In the context of today, what will help to further promote race

equality?

Performance Management discussions • Race equality must be a regular agenda item

• e.g. appraisals, targets, SHA reviews

Healthcare Commission• 68 (approx) proposed prompts to assess equality

& human rights• Link these to the ‘Guide-Performance Framework’