Count Me In Census - Progress Report

This information has been gathered from self-assessments by Mental Health Trusts in North East, Yorkshire and Humber about the impact of the 2007 census across the region in promoting good practice in the development of culturally sensitive services for BME client groups.

The list below gives an overview of self-reported areas of improved practice and good practice.

Click on any of the Trust names for more information about their work.

Humber Mental Health Teaching NHS Trust

Improved Practice

  • Plans to develop other reporting measures in addition to annual national survey

Good Practice

  • Workforce diversity information collected and compared with local population

  • Monitoring of ethnicity and legal status of admissions

Contact: Julie Wilson

Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Trust

Improved Practice

  • Increased priority and profile for equality and diversity

  • Introduction of Impact Assessment toolkit, user-guide and training package

  • Establishment of equality and diversity subgroup

Good Practice

  • Asylum seeker survey

  • Northumberland mapping project

  • Asylum seeker and refugee workshops

Contact: Christopher Rowlands

Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Improved Practice

  • Increased level of engagement with Community Development Workers and BME communities

  • Involvement in the Gypsy Traveller Health Group

  • Working in partnership to facilitate the establishment of a BME Older People's Forum

Good Practice

  • Equality and diversity steering group established

  • CDWs and BME user groups involved in planning new acute care provision

  • Multi-agency approach to provide local stakeholder events for BME communities to raise awareness of mental health issues and discover needs

Contact: Diane Ekins

Sheffield Care Trust

Improved Practice

  • Improved information gathering and monitoring

  • Involvement in the South Yorkshire Focused Iplementation Site and good progress against the action plan

Good Practice

  • Involvement in the Enhancing Pathays Into Care Project

  • Established a transcultural inpatient group

  • BME advocacy service for inpatients provided in partnership with the voluntary sector

Contact: Liz Johnson

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust

Improved Practice

  • Awareness training for staff on recording ethnicity

  • Good practice guidelines produced and displayed in clinical areas

  • Developed a CD-ROM for staff to access information on recording ethnicity

Good Practice

  • Data quality reports now collected regularly and missing codes for ethnicity recording requested from relevant clinical area

Contact: Deborah Goodchild