Delivering Race Equality
In 2005, the Department of Health launch it’s 5 year action plan to Deliver Race Equality in Mental Health Care (DRE). The action plan came out of a wide ranging consultation with services, community organisations, members of the public, carers and services users.
DRE outlines the actions to be taken by all organisations responsible for mental health care under 3 priorities:
- Engaged Communities
- Responsive Services
- Better and More Intelligently Used Information
National Vision
The national vision for Delivering Race Equality is that by 2010 there will be a service characterised by:
- less fear of mental health services among BME communities and service users;
- increased satisfaction with services;
- a reduction in the rate of admission of people from BME communities to psychiatric inpatient units;
- a reduction in the disproportionate rates of compulsory detention of BME service users in inpatient units;
- fewer violent incidents that are secondary to inadequate treatment of mental illness;
- a reduction in the use of seclusion in BME groups;
- the prevention of deaths in mental health services following physical intervention;
- more BME service users reaching self-reported states of recovery;
- a reduction in the ethnic disparities found in prison populations;
- a more balanced range of effective therapies, such as peer support services and psychotherapeutic and counselling treatments, as well as pharmacological interventions that are culturally appropriate and effective;
- a more active role for BME communities and BME service users in the training of professionals, in the development of mental health policy, and in the planning and provision of services; and
- a workforce and organisation capable of delivering appropriate and responsive mental health services to BME communities.
Posted on July 15th, 2008
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