Health Inequalities event summary

Below you can see the three presentations that were used by our guest speakers during this event. 

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Here you can download a comprehensive document with the provider responses to all the outstanding questions from this event: 

• Equality and diversity in the organisations
  • How many of the people consulted on your work to address health inequality internally live in Greenwich and come from the diverse communities affected?
  • How representative is your organisation of the communities it serves - at strategic and leadership levels, board, governors, directors responsible commissioning decisions, trustees, and senior management roles? Please provide a breakdown.
  • Regarding equality and diversity, and inclusion – race-based hair discrimination affects black people in workplaces. Is your organisation involved and in support of the Halo collective?
  • What EDI training is provided to staff? Has this changed in the light of the BLM movement?
  • Has staff moral increased as the result of the EDI training and development? Please provide a breakdown showing how many staff (at what levels) have attended EDI training in the past year, measures of staff morale, and how you have attributed to EDI training?
• Intersectionality
  • How are health inequalities being addressed for those experiencing the intersection of Black Asian and Minority Ethnic & Disability?
  • Before COVID, what proportion of feedback (complaints, comments, and compliments) was received specifically from the Black Asian and Minority Ethnic community in Greenwich (service users, Black Asian and Minority Ethnic community groups, and grassroots service providers). What progress has been made with this feedback?
  • Over the last year, what proportion of feedback (complaints, comments, and compliments) has been received specifically from the Black Asian and Minority Ethnic community in Greenwich (service users, Black Asian and Minority Ethnic community groups, and grassroots service providers). What progress has been made with this feedback?
  • How can METRO-GAD (Greenwich Association of Disabled People) and other organisations get involved or included as experts in your co-production?
  • Real co-production and partnership require meaningful respect by paying service users for their time. What plans do you have to pay service users for co-production activities?
• Improving outcomes for seldom heard groups
  • We need to carry out more research in developing treatment of reproductive health. Fibroid affects mainly women of Afro-Caribbean heritage. The removing the reproductive organs seem to be the only option available.
  • Not all services are collecting ethnicity data – across all your services, what proportion of service users do you have ethnicity data on? What steps are being taken to improve this. For commissioners – is it part of the contract that services collect ethnicity data and if so – how is this monitored?
  • If anything good is on offer – it doesn't come to us first. If Black communities are a small part of the UK population. why the obsession in vaccinating these communities?
  • Getting home ventilator spares was a problem during the pandemic, what can be done locally to ensure vital supplies are available to home patients?
  • At the Lewisham and Greenwich Trust meeting today (25/05/2021) mental health attendances at A&E are unacceptably high. Revocation of CTOs will only add to acute pressures particularly among the Black Asian and Minority Ethnic community. Could you confirm that this issue will be investigated urgently and remedies put in place?
  • In the light of disproportionate impacts and COVID deaths in residential institutions, is there a strategy for deinstitutionalization in place?
• Accessibility for patients with disabilities
  • Do you have plans to install changing places facilities at your venues (Accessible toilet facilities with hoist & adjustable changing bench)?
  • Are you providing information in accessible formats e.g., easy read, braille, audio, large print, and community languages?