Berkshire East PCT Peer Review

30 April 2007

Berkshire

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Berkshire East PCT hosted a Peer Review visit on the evening of 30th April and all day on May 1st 2007.

The aim of the visit was to increase the learning for the host PCT to enable them to progress their work.

THEME FOR THE REVIEW

Health Activists are a mechanism that have been employed by two of the former PCTs (Slough and Windsor, Ascot and Maidenhead) to increase access to health services among BME communities and other disadvantaged groups. Having worked in partnership with Berkshire College and Thames Valley University to develop the role, the Health activists were originally funded in 2000. Since then,

their role has grown significantly, and the review will examine what progress has been made in this area, particularly in the area of older people’s services.

Within this context, the peer review team will examine what progress the PCT is making in tackling race inequalities, paying particular interest to the following areas:

  • how the PCT is developing a single Race Equality Scheme from those originally held by the three PCTs;
  • in what ways the PCT has engaged BME communities and how meaningful this has been;
  • what approaches the PCT has taken to commissioning services and how they reflect the needs of all the communities it serves; and
  • how the PCT has developed effective partnerships with the local authorities and the voluntary and community sector.

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