Katy
Through the Department of Health 3 year Funding Initiative (now finished)
for Improving Health Among Ethnic Minority populations 9 projects were
funded 2 of which may be of interest as they both include patient profiling
and ethnicity
1. Princes Park Health Centre Service Development Initiative, Liverpool
-contact Dr. Bennett Lee -Project Manager email: [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
2. Culturally Competent primary Care Services - Patient profiling in GP
Practices(West Midlands) Contact John Scaechter Project Manager email:
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Hope this is useful
Claudette Edwards
-----Original Message-----
From: Katy Gardner [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 09 October 2000 21:51
To: Andrew Hobbs
Cc: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Ethnic group coding in secondary care
In message <[log in to unmask]>,
Andrew Hobbs
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>I too was told that ethnic monitoring is done so poorly in
some trusts that
>the results were not worth looking at, during the course of
my research
>recently.
>
>Has anyone asked health staff why ethnic monitoring is not
done well? Are
>there good examples that contradict this picture, and if
so, how have they
>succeeded?
>
>Andrew Hobbs
>Preston
>
>
The key to all this must be USING the data. I think this is
really
difficult. we have just profiled our patients in an inner
city practice
in toxteth (report avaiable if you want one) but the only
way the
enthsuaism will be maintained is by patients visibly
benefitting from
the use of the data and staff being kept on board with what
is happening
as a reuslt of the data. this is a big undertaking. we have
had a
committment from the very start to use th data we obaitned
to provide
appropriate health care based on evidence of need to our
practice
population but it is very hard. for example our information
clearly
indicates that a bilingual member of the reception and
clerical staff is
needed but various circumstances prevent our local Trust who
employ all
of us s our health centre for advertising for one. thus it
can be very
frustrating.................
Katy Gardner, GP at:
Princes Park Health Centre
Toxteth
L83TX
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Katy Gardner
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