Sarah: this is most opportune. The national pacesetters programme is
interested in equality monitoring across the 'seven equalities' - so that
would include the sexuality and gender areas as well as disabilities - and
it seems to me that this will need to build on the knowledge and experience
of the 'ERKM' (ethnic record keeping) history and its transmogrification
into 'patient profiling'. Clearly we all know of the Liverpool and London
Riverside initiatives in the past, but it would be very good to add more
recent expertise - and if anyone had a good report or published paper that
we could add to the NHS Evidence dataset in the NHS (electronic) Library,
I'd also be very glad to hear about it.
So, this is a national call for evidence and experience!!!
(Oh and by the way, Raj Bhopal, myself, and others are trying to revive this
debate at a European level so if there's anyone out there who wants to claim
a star position there may be an opportunity to shine in a wider
horizon.....)
Mark R D Johnson
Moderator, Minority-Ethnic-Health Discussion List
www.jiscmail.ac.uk/minority-ethnic-health
SLEH: the Specialist Library for Ethnicity and Health in the National
Library for Health www.library.nhs.uk/ethnicity
(De Montfort University in association with Warwick University, for the NHS
Institute)
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