You have been invited to join NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSE&I) national mental health team meeting on the 22nd November 2021 from 1.00pm to 2.30pm to discuss ways to improve experiences and outcomes of care for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) patients and carers in mental health services. This will help inform the development of the Patient and Carers Race Equality Framework (PCREF), which was one of the key recommendations of the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act agreed by the government.
NHS England and NHS Improvement recently published its first Advancing Mental Health Equalities Strategy which sets out the actions the NHS will take to reduce inequalities in mental health.
The PCREF is an important part of this strategy, as the aim is to roll out the PCREF as a guiding framework in order to support NHS Trusts to improve Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) experiences of care in mental health services. In partnership with East London NHS Foundation Trust, who are supporting NHSE&I to help develop and test the PCREF, it is really critical we get to hear from you on your experiences in mental health services to help drive the changes needed to improve the experiences of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic communities in and or accessing mental health services.
The meeting will be hosted by Dr Jacqui Dyer, Equalities Advisor for NHS England and NHS Improvement and chair of the Advancing Mental Health Equalities Taskforce and Lorraine Sunduza, Chief Nurse and Deputy CEO at ELFT.
The meeting will cover:
• Overview on the Key priorities for the Advancing Mental Health Equalities Strategy
• Overview of the Patient and Carers Race Equality Framework from a national perspective
• Hearing from ELFT’s Expert by Experience recruited to support in the development of our local PCREF
• Open discussion on the Patient and Carers Race Equality Framework – the National Organisational Competencies
• Next steps and the ask on our participants
Please join us on this very important meeting to help shape the PCREF.
