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Case Studies and Good Practice

Existing good work within the East Midlands

The NHS in the East Midlands has a good track record of providing inclusive services.

Examples include:

  • Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust is hosting the East Midlands PSA 16 mental health and wellbeing network on behalf of the region and is providing leadership, support and guidance on employment for vulnerable groups.

  • Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Trust Star Wards Volunteer Strategy Group succeeded in multiplying volunteers’ numbers by seven times since it was launched in 2007.

  • NHS Nottingham City, NHS Nottinghamshire County and Nottingham University Hospitals Trust are working collaboratively to tackle under-representation of BME staff by offering placements for staff on bands 1-5 for a period of 6 weeks.

 

  • NHS Derby City in partnership with Surtal Asian Arts and local community members developed a bilingual play to raise the awareness of Type 2 Diabetes within South Asian communities.

 

  • The coordination and funding streams provided by the East Midlands Development Centre to support the work of Community Development Workers (CDW) and a Regional Lead’s Forum; empowering local leadership, training opportunities and development activity to advance the Delivery Race Equality in Mental Health (DRE) agenda.

 

  • Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Inpatient Occupational Therapy Team helping adult mental health patients to regain their confidence through establishing a Breakfast Club.

 

  • East Midlands Pacesetter Programme tackling health inequalities for patients’ initiatives such as health ambassadors’ and women from Gypsy Travellers Community sharing their culture and experience of health care with health staff; offering work experience for disabled people and career opportunities for BME staff on low grades.

 

  • NHS Leicestershire County and Rutland using a “theatre group” as a vehicle to consult 16 to 18 year old Young People in Care on “Health Matters”.

 

  • East Midlands Ambulance Service working closely with faith organisations held a Summit on Religion and Belief that highlighted key issues facing the service through debate, community involvement, dynamic presentations and workshops.

 

  • NHS Leicester City in partnership with the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Centre has provided practical advice and training to GPs to improve access to and experiences of primary care for Lesbian Gay and Bisexual (LGB) patients.

 

  • Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust are designing and developing a 1.5hour training programme which will be accompanied by interactive DVD with the aim to explore the how the BME communities across East Midlands accesses Mental Health Services with the aim of exploring some of the barriers and challenges facing BME communities when accessing Mental Health services with the NHS. The project is being undertaken by working closely with the CDW’s and the BME communities and then to design the training programme to raise awareness and challenge practice. This DVD could be use as a stand allow session or be used as part of an In house Diversity Awareness Training Course. This project to due to be delivered by the end of May.

 

  • Nottinghamshire Healthcare Trust has recently developed a staff policy for Gender Variant/Trans Personnel, which has been shared as a good practice model with organisations throughout the country. Also, they have led on the development and production of a Regional Engagement Toolkit, which aims to help organisations ensure better involvement of BME Service Users and Carers, particularly in Mental Health Services. Click here to download the Toolkit.

 

  • In partnership with other Nottinghamshire NHS partners, EMAS led on the organisation of the ‘Community In Unity’ (CIU) event which was held in November 2010.