Approach to promoting race equality in the PCT

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Approach to promotingrace equality in the PCT

• LEADERSHIP

LINKS policies Joint working
SUSTAINING CHANGES cycle of planning
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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 changecycle of planning
• Planning delivery e.g. LDP
• Commissioning and review e.g. SLAs
• Performance management/corporate clinical
  governance
• Staff employment development

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Using Maslows Hierarchy-of-needs to motivate
healthcare development
Growth less need for targeted services race
equality being mainstreamed and integrated in
planning, commissioning and performance
management, in functions (e. g. employment)
Developing other services replicate and
systematically transfer learning and good
practice to generic services. The Guide is a very
helpful tool.
Developing basics interpreting, translation,
diet, multi-faith facilities. Planning and
providing targeted services for specific high
prevalence diseases or conditions such as
Diabetes, CHD.
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Structure we used for self assessment of progress

• Commissioning Public Health Services
• Voluntary sector
• Nursing Primary Care
• RES Steering Group
• Training Development HR Communication
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• User Community Involvement Clinical
  Governance
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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

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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
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