title: Equal care for all.
abstract: Fifty years after the NHS was launched to offer health care for all, there are still many inequalities, particularly for clients from ethnic minorities. This article discusses these inequalities in the light of an increase in stoma formation and bowel disease in Walsall's Asian community. The author recommends a number of proactive measures that trusts and nurses can use to improve uptake of services by ethnic minority patients.
authors.affiliation: Manor Hospital, Walsall.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Swan
mesh_terms: D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000208:ethnology; D005006:Ethnicity; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000592:standards*; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000208:ethnology; D008913:Minority Groups; D020380:Needs Assessment; D011287:Prejudice; D013222:State Medicine / Q000592:standards*; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology