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Race for Health January 2010

Update #19 released: Friday 8, January 2010

Dear Programme Leads and Thinking Partners,

Happy New Year to you all from the Race for Health Team!

Brighton and Hove City Primary Care Trust

We would like to take this opportunity to welcome Brighton and Hove City Primary Care Trust to the programme. Phil Seddon, Equalities and Diversity Manager, will be taking the role of Programme Lead whilst Chief Executive Darren Grayson will be taking his place on the Programme Board.

Equality and Diversity Lead Database

We are delighted to be able to inform you that a database is now available detailing the contact details of all Equality and Diversity Leads from both Race for Health and Non-Race for Health PCTs, Acute Trusts, Ambulance Trusts, Care Trusts, Mental Health Trusts, Special Health Authorities and Strategic Health Authorities. Please find a copy attached or alternatively view the resource online at:

http://www.raceforhealth.org/about/equality_and_diversity_leads

Website Usage Survey

The deadline for Website Usage Surveys has now been extended to Friday 29 January. These surveys will help us to improve the usefulness of the web-based resources which we provide to you and it is therefore it would be highly appreciated if you could take a few short moments to complete the form and return it to me at:

jessica.bradbury@liverpoolpct.nhs.uk

Race for Health

1 Arthouse Square
61-69 Seel Street
Liverpool
L1 4AZ

Alternatively you can fax it to 0151 296 296 7717

A copy of the survey is attached.

Race for Health Meetings

Apologies for the typing error in the December Mailout – I can confirm that the next Programme Board Meeting is Thursday 21 January NOT Thursday 28 January. I hope that this has not caused too much confusion or inconvenience and that all Programme Leads shall still be able to join us at Shared Intelligence.

To confirm your attendance and/or to suggest agenda items, please contact Louise or I on 0151 296 7710/7582 or by email at jessica.bradbury@liverpoolpct.nhs.uk or louise.sinclair@liverpoolpct.nhs.uk

The next Programme Board meeting is to be Tuesday 9 February whilst the next Thinking Partners’ meeting is due to be held on Thursday 18 February.

Peer Review Reports

Peer Review Reports from throughout 2009 are now available on the Race for Health website at www.raceforhealth.org/resources/peer_review_reports.

On a similar note, NHS Leeds will be hosting their Peer Review on 2-3 February 2010. The theme of the review will be: ‘How can NHS Leeds embed Race Equality into its commissioning processes?’ The Peer Review team will be asked to explore this research question by comparing two of the PCT’s current commissioning models for Coronary Heart Disease and Mental Health services. The peer team will be asked whether adopting a flexible and intelligent approach to commissioning is the right approach for the PCT in order to embed Race Equality across the board.

Register your interest at: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/512523973 or contact Jackie Harrison at: Jacqueline.Harrison@sharedintelligence.net or on 020 7756 7608.

2010 DiversityRx Conference on Quality Health Care for Culturally Diverse Populations

You are invited to submit presentation proposals for this year’s DiversityRx Conference on improving health care for minority, immigrant and indigenous populations due to be held on October 18-21, 2010 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. The event attracts over 600 participants from more than a dozen countries every two years. Health care professionals, community representatives, advocates, policymakers, researchers and others can submit brief proposals on good practices and innovative approaches related to the following thematic categories:

  • culturally competent care/inequalities reduction
  • professional training and education on cultural competence/disparity reduction
  • organizational cultural competence
  • language access
  • policy
  • research

Following a very positive response to international panels and presentations in 2008, organisers are particularly interested in presentations that address emerging issues, model programs and policy frameworks from around the world.

Proposals are due February 1, 2010.

Full details on the Call for Proposals: www.diversityrxconference.org/proposals

Further conference details: www.diversityrxconference.org/

Nafsiyat Inter-cultural Case Discussion Seminars

Nafsiyat Inter-cultural Therapy Centre is pleased to announce a series of five stand-alone intercultural case discussion seminars from January to May 2010. The seminars are aimed at individual and family psychotherapists and other mental health and social care professionals who are working cross-culturally. Sessions will take the form of clinical case discussion groups with an emphasis on the integration of race and culture with generic psycho-therapeutic practise. They will address the role of political, social and cultural contexts in the lives of clients and therapists and the relevance of this in the consulting room and for best practise. Participants will be required to bring case material.

The seminars will be facilitated by Dr. Inga Britt-Krause and Yemi Oloyede.

Please see attached flier for details.

Multifaith Calendars

Follow this link to see the BBC’s Multifaith Calendar for 2010< http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/tools/calendar/date.shtml?month=&year=2010&go=Go

Jobs of Interest

Pacesetter Programme Manager (767-EMA1808)
NHS Eastern and Coastal Kent
£29,789 to £39,273

Equality and Diversity Manager
NHS Gloucestershire (744-G9-334)
£24,831 - £33,436

For these and other jobs visit www.jobs.nhs.uk or www.diversitylink.co.uk/Diversity_Jobs.html

Should you have anything which you wish to be included in next month’s mail-out or on the website, please feel free to contact me at jessica.bradbury@liverpoolpct.nhs.uk or on 0151 296 7710.

Best wishes for January from the Race for Health team.