“Count me In” Census – Mental Health Community for Black and Ethnic Minorities;

Recent figures released from ‘The Care Quality Commission‘ (CQC) have depicted that 5 years on from the first  ‘Count me in’ census – people from black and minority ethnic communities are still 3 times more likely to be detained under the Mental health act.

The Government programme – ‘Delivering Race Equality in Mental Health Care’  – also shows that there is no sign of  this decreasing.

Delivering Race Equality in Mental Health Care (DRE) is an action plan for achieving equality and tackling discrimination in mental health services in England for all people of Black and minority ethnic (BME) status, including those of Irish or Mediterranean origin and east European migrants.

It draws on three key recent publications in particular:

* Inside Outside: Improving Mental Health Services for Black and Minority Ethnic Communities in England;
* Delivering Race Equality: A Framework for Action; and
* the independent inquiry into the death of David Bennett (although DRE itself is not a direct response to the inquiry’s report).

David Bennett was a 38-year-old African-Caribbean patient who died on 30 October 1998 in a medium secure psychiatric unit after being restrained by staff. As well as DRE, this document contains the Government’s formal response to all the recommendations made in the report of the inquiry into David Bennett’s death. The responses are overwhelmingly positive and, taken together with the action plan in DRE, comprise a coherent programme of work for achieving equality of access, experience and outcomes for BME mental health service users.

The programme is based on three ‘building blocks’, first proposed in the consultation version of DRE:

*  More appropriate and responsive services – achieved through action to develop organisations and the workforce, to improve clinical services and to improve services for specific groups, such as older people, asylum seekers and refugees, and children;

*  Community engagement – delivered through healthier communities and by action to engage communities in planning services, supported by 500 new Community Development Workers; and

*  Better information – from improved monitoring of ethnicity, better dissemination of information and good practice, and improved knowledge about effective services. This will include a new regular census of mental health patients.

Source: The Department of Health.

Dawn Pugh Expert therapist.

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