Dear Members,

Is there anything like this  covering  Wales?

Roiyah


Inside Outside


On Monday 10 March, Health Minister, Jacqui Smith, launched 'Inside Outside:
Improving Mental Health Services for Black and Minority Ethnic Communities
in England'. The report signals an important step forward to support the
reform of mental health services for people from black and minority ethnic
communities in this country. In welcoming the report, Jacqui Smith said:


"The Government is very much committed to race equality. One of the core
values underpinning the modernisation programme within mental health, is
that mental health services should be non-discriminatory and appropriate to
the needs of those who use them. We are determined to ensure that everyone
in our society benefits from these reforms.

Yet the testimony of many service users, carers and members of the black and
minority ethnic communities is that this aspiration is not yet a reality.
Tackling ethnic inequalities within mental health services in terms of
prevention, early detection, access, diagnosis, care and quality of
treatment and outcome is one of the greatest challenges facing us. This
report provides the underpinning rationale to implement real reform."


'Inside Outside' was prepared by a group of experts under the chairmanship
of Professor Sashi Sashidharan, Medical Director of North Birmingham Mental
Health Trust on behalf of the Mental Health Taskforce. In the report, Prof.
Sashidharan sets out three key objectives and recommendations for change to
improve the overall mental health of black and minority ethnic people living
in England:

To reduce and eliminate ethnic inequalities in mental health service
experience and outcome.
To develop the cultural capability of mental health services
To engage the community and build capacity through community development
workers

To down load document in English:

http://www.nimhe.org.uk/downloads/inside_outside.pdf


Please visit website to download copies in Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi and
Gujarati
http://www.nimhe.org.uk/whatshapp/news.asp



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Dr. Roiyah Saltus - Blackwood
Research Fellow
BE4 Project: Improving mental health and social care  services to Black and
Minority Ethnic people in Cardiff

Research Unit, School of Care Sciences
University of Glamorgan
Pontypridd,  CF37 1DL

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