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BME awareness in mental health

Posted By Rankin

"BME awareness in mental health "

About: Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust / Adult mental health (inpatient)

(as other),

The NHS does provide a good service but these services are not getting to the African Carribean communities in the way they should.

Raising awareness means making available more development workers. A lot more needs to be done to raise awareness of mental health within the BME communities.

Prevention and medication are also important as well as learning about diverse cultures is crucial. We need to continue addressing the Delivery in Race Equality agenda.

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Response from Jane Danforth, Involvement & Experience Officer, Involvement, Experience and Volunteering Team, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust 13 years ago
Jane Danforth
Involvement & Experience Officer, Involvement, Experience and Volunteering Team,
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Hello, my name is Jane Danforth. My role involves helping our service users, volunteers and staff to understand that Notts Healthcare wants to hear stories about our services. We reply to every story and it really helps us to improve what we do, how we do it and to hear about what works well too.

Submitted on 24/09/2010 at 13:13

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Thank you for taking the time to share your opinion. We appreciate any feedback as it helps us to improve what we do as a Trust. I will pass on your posting to Adult Mental Health Services for further comment.

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Response from Involvement & Experience Officer, Involvement, Experience and Volunteering Team, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust 13 years ago
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Submitted on 30/09/2010 at 16:16

Thank you for raising this on Patient Opinion. The Trust is very much committed to continuing the legacy of the delivery of the Race Equality Agenda and consequently has 8 community development workers whose role is to engage with BME communities.

Obviously,you believe there is a gap in service provision and if you would like to share your thoughts about these issues please ring Catherine Conchar our Head of Equality & Diversity who would be pleased to have a discussion with you.

Catherine Conchar: 0115 9934543

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