Kate Schneider

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Kate Schneider

• Co-chair Reducing Health Inequalities workstream

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Representation from

• Mental health trusts
• Department of Health
• - Public Health
• - Reducing Health Inequalities group
• - Equalities Human Rights Group
• Stonewall

• Public Health
• PACE
• Care Services Improvement Partnership
• Polari
• Transgender people
• Higher Education (research)

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Focus Year 1

• Literature search
• - health inequalities homophobia
• - LGB people and suicide
• Visibility Department of Health photo library
• Monitoring Count Me In Census, Mental Health Act
  Commission, March 2006
• Resources Key Stage 1 LGB people

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Information resources

• LGBT Network resource bank
• Knowledge Community
• www.csip.org.uk
• Jan Bridget, GALYIC

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Directions - 2006/07

• Commissioning guidelines services for LGBT
  people positive practice
• Influence emerging performance management
  mechanisms HealthCare Commission and Commission
  for Social Care Inspection

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Directions - 2006/07

• Social Inclusion
• Public Health health inequalities
• Influencing the agenda via
• - Government Offices
• - Strategic Health Authorities
• - national regional networks
• ? capacity

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Directions

• Widening membership of sub group voluntary
  community sector
• Raising profile about health inequalities
  experienced by LGBT people conferences,
  seminars, workshops
• - mental health (suicide)
• - public health