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The
Delivering Race Equality Mental
Wellbeing Roadshow will be
present at these upcoming
events:
- Gypsy & Traveller History
Month Event on 1st July 2010
at the Butterfly Project, Old
Bowling Green, 75A Rosehill
Street, Derby DE23 8FZ
- Derby Caribbean Carnival on
18th July 2010
at Osmaston Park, Derby
There will be displays,
traditional cooking, music,
dance and information stalls.
There is no need to book, just
come along and bring your
service users, carers and anyone
you think would benefit from
this event. For more
information, click
here or
email
cheryl.mason@sdvsmhf.org.uk
or call 01773 599995.
- The next CDW Network
Meeting will be on
Tuesday 3rd August 2010 from 1pm
to 4pm (starting with lunch) at
Hadhari, 350 Burton Road, Derby
DE23 6AF.
- The Position
Statement and Action Plan for
Mental Health 2010-2015,
produced by the Care
Quality Commission, is available
here. In
particular, it focuses on the
access to, and experiences of
services for people from black
and minority ethnic groups,
younger people and older people
with mental health problems.
- The Derbyshire CDWs
have been invited to join the
meetings at the Hartington
Unit. This will
provide them with an excellent
opportunity to influence issues/
decisions made on the wards with
regards to BME service users.
Please click on the links for
meeting dates in 2010 for the
Patient & Carer
Engagement Meetings
and the
Senior Management Team
Meetings.
- The Delivering Race
Equality Roadshows are, so far,
proving to be a great success
To read Emmanuel's full report
on the DRE Roadshows so far,
please click
here. Films of the
roadshows, produced by Catherine
Ingram from Derbyshire Voice,
are now available on Youtube, by
clicking on the links below:
DRE Roadshow - Derbyshire
Chinese Welfare Association on
15th October 2009
DRE Roadshow - African Caribbean
Community Association on 11th
November 2009
DRE Roadshow - The
Radbourne Unit, Derby Royal
Hospital on the 3rd December
2009
- Making Space have set up a
BME Workers Network to
facilitate effective networking
and information sharing. They
are working towards developing a
'Service User and Carer
Framework Toolkit'. Focus
groups for carers and service
users took place on 19th May and
3rd June 2010. More
information will be available
here soon...
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Count Me In 2009
The results of the 2009
national census of inpatients
and patients on supervised
community treatment in mental
health and learning difficulties
services in England and Wales.
The full report can be found
here.
- The latest CDW
E-Newsletter is available
here.
- A unique national
campaign has been launched by
Stop Hate UK and Community Links
which is aimed at raising
awareness of Hate Crime and
protecting people with mental
health problems. A 24-hour
helpline, the Stop Hate Line,
provides a free and confidential
alternative to reporting
directly to the police and
enables victims to get support
when they need it.
For more information about the
campaign, click
here.
To see the poster, click
here.
- The National Cancer
Action Team are creating the
first ever National BME (Black
and Minority Ethnic) Cancer
Patient Advisory Panel. The
aim of this is to break down
barriers and ensure equality of
care to all when accessing
cancer information, service
delivery, and support. For more
details about how you can get
involved, click
here.
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- An overarching set
of action plans have been drawn
up by the Derbyshire CDWs, their
managers and commissioners.
They specifically look at the
actions required by CDWs as
their contribution to delivering
the twelve DRE strategic
intentions in Derbyshire. You
can see the document
here.
- MP3 podcasts are
available on the Mind website
covering topics such as
depression, anxiety, dementia
and schizophrenia in various
languages aimed at reaching
local BME communities.
Click here
for more details.
- Patients from BME
groups still more likely to be
admitted to a mental health
hospital according to
findings from the fourth annual
census of the ethnicity of
inpatients in mental health and
learning disability services.
Click here
for more details.
- Connect and Include
is a study of community
development and mental health
commissioned and funded by the
National Social Inclusion
Programme.
Click here
for more details.
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Delivering Race Equality Events
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The Delivering Race Equality Mental Wellbeing Roadshow will be present at these upcoming events:
- Gypsy & Traveller History Month Event on 1st July 2010
at the Butterfly Project, Old Bowling Green, 75A Rosehill Street, Derby DE23 8FZ
- Derby Caribbean Carnival on 18th July 2010
at Osmaston Park, Derby
There will be displays, traditional cooking, music, dance and information stalls. There is no need to book, just come along and bring your service users, carers and anyone you think would benefit from this event. For more information, click here or email cheryl.mason@sdvsmhf.org.uk or call 01773 599995.
- The Equalities in Mental Health Conference 2010 was recently attended by Emmanuel Williams (Trainer Coordinator DRE). To view workshops from this event, please click here.
The Culture, Community and Consecration Conference (Mental Health and the Exploration of Faith) took place on 2nd February 2010. The workshop presentations, addresses are available to download at www.faithinaction.org.
Derbyshire Research and Reports
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National Research and Reports
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Patients from BME groups still more likely to be admitted to a mental health hospital.
The findings from the fourth annual census of the ethnicity of inpatients in mental health and learning disability services have now been published. The figures continue to show that some black and minority ethnic groups are three or more times more likely than average to be admitted as inpatients in mental health services. As a result, the report calls for healthcare providers, local authorities and other statutory agencies to work together to prevent and better manage mental illness in black and minority ethnic groups.
Some black and minority ethnic groups are also more likely to be detained on admission and are more likely to be admitted through the criminal justice system.
The report notes issues such as higher rates of mental illness in some ethnic groups, socio-economic factors, living alone and family and social support, as important factors in the different pathways into care and rates of admission and detention of some black and minority ethnic groups. The report also calls for organisations that commission and provide mental health and learning disability services to make a "renewed and strenuous" effort to improve access to single-sex wards.
In mental health services, 68% of inpatients did not have access to single sex wards, the same as in 2007. Across learning disability services, 57% of inpatients did not have access to single sex wards.
The Count Me In Census 2008 was a joint initiative by the Healthcare Commission, the Mental Health Act Commission (MHAC) and the National Institute for Mental Health in England (NIHME). It is one of the three key building blocks of the government's five-year action plan, "Delivering Race Equality in Mental Health Care". The census aimed to provide accurate figures on the numbers of inpatients in mental health and learning disability services in England and Wales on one day and to encourage service providers to collect and monitor data on all ethnic groups of patients.
The census was conducted on March 31 this year. It collected information on:
31,020 inpatients in 255 of mental health organisations. The proportion of inpatients in independent mental health hospitals increased from 10% in 2005 to 14% in 2008.
4,107 inpatients in 129 learning disability organisations across England and Wales. The proportion of inpatients in independent healthcare organisations increased from 20% of the total in 2006 to 27% in 2008. The report emphasises that the collection of accurate data is crucial to monitoring the quality of care patients receive. On this it makes several recommendations to the Department of Health and the Information Centre, including:
The extension of collection on ethnicity data to primary care
The submission of patient data be made mandatory for all independent healthcare providers
The report also says that all organisations must continue to improve the recording of the ethnicity of their patients.
Anna Walker, chief executive of the Healthcare Commission, said "The census gives us an important snapshot of mental health and learning disability services on one day. If services are to bring down rates of admission for people from black and ethnic minorities, they must address those factors that can help prevent the illness from becoming so acute that it requires hospitalisation."
Simon Armson, Chairman of the MHAC, said "The census has once again been a great source of information about the use of the Act for various social groups, and I urge services to consider its findings carefully, both at national and local levels. "Unless we have information on people who use services, it is impossible to make those services appropriate, or to address urgent questions of pathways into mental health care by some groups within our society."
Melba Wilson, national DRE Director, said "The Census' findings underscored the importance of the DRE programme continuing to work with commissioners and providers to improve services. A key element is to maintain a focus on early intervention in better managing the pathways of care of people from black and minority ethnic communities. We are committed to working across sectors, disciplines and agencies to support and encourage change."
Published: 27 November 2008
Click here to see the full report.
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