title: Delivering race equality in mental health in England: the importance of pathways.
abstract: The programme on Delivering Race Equality in mental health care has been working to address inequalities in care. These inequalities cannot take a reductionist approach to understanding these inequalities. Individual identities are complex comprising many overlapping aspects of lived experience. A better, systems-wide understanding of care services is also needed to address any inequalities, rather than focusing on one aspect, such as admission rates. To achieve equality of access, experience and outcome we need to review and improve whole pathways of care. The Enhancing Pathways into Care project has been helpful in furthering this understanding of quality improvement and exploring practical approaches to delivering the desired equality. The equalities programme for mental health is building on this understanding for better quality services.
authors.affiliation: Delivering Race Equalities Programme, NHS West Midlands Regional Development Centre, Birmingham, UK.
authors.forename: Melba
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wilson
authors.forename: Shahana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ramsden
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Clark
mesh_terms: D019091:Critical Pathways; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D004739:England; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D008603:Mental Health; D008605:Mental Health Services; D054525:Minority Health / Q000208:ethnology*; D028701:Patient Rights / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence