GPs and practice managers training on quality and equality

A North West PCT has shown how to engage GPs and practice managers on the equalities agenda.

How to ensure sustainable culture change to achieve equalities

We need to have all the components of the eco-system in place for a successful equalities approach to take root, grow and flourish in the culture of the NHS.

Ensuring that prioritisation doesn't mean discrimination

Hard times may necessitate hard choices in terms of prioritisation. However, like all policy decisions, any decision to restrict referrals for particular treatments must be subject to a proper equality impact assessment

An atlas of healthcare - but what about mapping the gap?

The new Atlas of Healthcare does a great job of mapping health differences along geographic lines but what about the picture for communities that don't fall neatly into particular geographical pockets?

How do we know what we are doing makes a real difference for patients and staff?

Outcomes, not processes, must properly be the focus of any equality delivery system, to help the NHS develop a consistent, evidence-based approach to equalities work and that's why it's vital that the national system being proposed is linked into the new NHS Outcomes Framework.

Be inclusive, consult effectively, but don’t wear out your stakeholders in the process

If you're "Putting patients first" then that means understanding how to consult with and involve them. Will the new NHS landscape make that harder or easier, and what can we learn from existing best practice?

Equality Impact Assessment and the BIG system changes

A terrible fuss? Political Correctness gone mad? Or a discipline that goes to the heart of rigorous change management, quality assurance and the pursuit of public value for money? Why do we insist on effective Equality Impact Assessment of big system changes

Do it once, do it well – putting diversity evidence into commissioning

GPs and public health experts mustn’t waste their time duplicating knowledge-gathering about patients from specific diversity groups. We need a national or regional level pooling of diversity-based clinical nd public health intelligence and appropriate recommendations for practice.

Equality, Diversity and Human Rights is not a 'do later' subject

Why Equality and Diversity must be at the heart of Commissioning

An understanding of Diversity must be at the heart of the strategic planning decisions that underpin good commissioning of health services if money is to be spent effectively