Colleagues 

As regards patient information relating to ethnic monitoring, you may
like to look at the Communications Guidelines and associated materials
included with the Ethnic Monitoring Toolkit - developed by my colleague
in Information Services Division, Joan Jamieson (currently off for a few
weeks) and myself a few years back.
www.isdscotland.org/ethnicmonitoringtoolkit
   
Clearly the Toolkit and Guidelines relate solely to ethnic monitoring.
However they could also be expanded quite easily to include other
diversity strands.  And I am sure that we will be doing that in Scotland
very soon.

I would take this opportunity to advise colleagues of the progress with
the staff training DVD that we have been developing in Scotland to
overcome issues that frontline staff may have in asking the diversity
questions of patients.  The DVD which is called "Happy to ask, happy to
tell:  diversity data can make a difference" has now been completed (of
course with input from Raj who is the main speaker on the race strand)
and is being piloted in a number of Scottish NHS Boards.  

We are developing a training manual to accompany the DVD and are
scheduled to launch the two as a package around December of this year.
Before that time, I will send around a message to advise availability
and ask if colleagues would like to have a copy sent to them.  However
(though I am not going to apologise for this) its all with Scottish
accents - so application outside Scotland may have some difficulties!
Update information on the DVD has just been put online at -
http://www.isdscotland.org/equalityhappytoaskdvd

Meantime, we are pleased of course to have any comments or suggestions
from colleagues relating to these materials.

Christopher Homfray 
Equalities & Planning, NHS Health Scotland
0141 354 2940
 
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From: Health of minority ethnic communities in the UK
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Moira
Sent: 19 August 2008 09:48
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Subject: Re: Patient profiling - information for patients (or about
them)

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)