Peer Review - Ethnic Monitoring
The Lambeth PCT Peer Review took place on the 7th and 8th of February, 2006.
Theme and key questions for the Review
The thematic focus for the Review (selected by the PCT) was:
‘How successful is Lambeth Primary Care Trust at collecting, recording, analysing and using ethnicity monitoring information (EM)?’
Key questions which the team were asked to consider included:
- Bearing in mind that it is largely non-computerised, is Lambeth PCT (LPCT) doing as much as it could to collect and use ethnicity monitoring information?
- How could LPCT improve how it uses ethnicity data to better inform the PCT about gaps in its services?
- What were the factors/conditions that enabled Dr Williams’ project to succeed? Do any of these lessons have wider application?
- What other examples of good practice can be identified? How can this learning be captured and spread throughout the organisation?
- How is EM information fed into thinking and work around BME health inequality – or, in the absence of thorough EM, how is this work conceived and targeted, and how is the RES action plan driven forward?