Know your people better

Commissioners should know which service modifications tackle health inequalities in, for example, diabetes and heart disease? Lambeth PCT is trying to find a way. Read more..

Finding smokers in their comfort zone

Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi and Polish are some of the languages that Berkshire East PCT uses for its smoking cessation programmes among BME communities. Read more..

Workforce innovation gives food for thought

When local children from some BME communities required hospital treatment for deformed palettes and gastro-intestinal infection, Luton PCT tried a new approach. Read more..

Re-engineering for childhood disability

We need to create ‘expert parents’ so BME mums and dads can get the best for children with disability found Birmingham PCT which pioneered support for them. Read more..

Speech therapists lead language revolution

If a child's mother tongue is not English, then a toddler with speech difficulties needs multilingual therapists, found Bradford and Airdale PCT. Read more..

Checking your services comply with race law

Don’t bury your head in the sand over race equality impact assessments. Manchester PCT shows simple ways to meet legal requirements. Read more..

Guide through mental health maze

BME communities may miss out on vital mental health support, unless someone guides them through the bureaucracy, found Westminster PCT. Read more..

Welcome to Race for Health

Race for Health is a Department of Health-funded, NHS based programme that works with PCTs and Trusts to drive forward improvements in health for people from black, and minority ethnic backgrounds. We believe that the time for simply talking about race inequality is over. We support real change across the NHS, with the implementation of legislation as a starting point.

Please visit our new Black History Season portal for information on our participation and events throughout 2010.

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Latest Race for Health news

Equalities report for GP Commissioners

Race for Health has just published ‘Tackling Health Inequalities in the new NHS, Recommendations for Action.’ It sets out recommendations from our recent summit of equalities experts in on how to support equalities during the transitional period of change in the NHS.
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Commissioning for Equality

A small group of Race for Health members has been working on a new commissioning tool which is designed to help organisations improve the effectiveness of their commissioning in relation to equality.
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Great opportunity to show off your good practice in community engagement

The East Midlands Strategic Health Authority has recently commissioned an important piece of national research to capture best practice in engaging staff, patients and communities for the nine protected characteristics and from this, developing guidance on successful engagement for the NHS.
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Latest external equality news

Upcoming events

Race for Health will shortly be announcing a new calendar of events for 2011, from May until the end of the year. Please watch this space.

Featured resources

Your Organisation and Race for Health

Why joining us to work on equalities saves money, improves efficiency, supports commissioning and increases service quality
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Race for Health Annual Report 2008/09 - Accepting the Challenge

Welcome to the Race for Health programme’s Annual Report 2008/09 – our second Annual Report for our sponsor, the Department of Health.
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