Mental Health Services: Ethnic Groups

(asked on 13th December 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the recommendations of NHS England's Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, what progress has been made on the development of a patient and carers race equality standard.


This question was answered on 16th December 2016

We welcomed the recommendation in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health to appoint a national Equalities Champion with a specific remit to tackle mental health inequalities across the health system and through cross-Government action. We are working with our stakeholders to progress this recommendation.

We will consider how best to address a range of equality issues in mental health, including giving consideration to the recommendation of the Independent Commission on Acute Adult Psychiatric Care, established and supported by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, that a Patients and Carers Race Equality Standard should be piloted in mental health.

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