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7. The Disparate Picture: Activities under development or being progressed by Health Boards and Trusts
Figure 1 and 2 shown below indicate the responses received from Health Boards and Trusts to selected questions from the questionnaire. It gives an idea of the sort of initiatives being undertaken by NHS Organisations in relation to ethnic minority health. It also further indicates the general support that is needed to address some of the disparities in policies and practices.
Figure 1: In relation to service developments, the following activities are underway or planned for within Health Boards:
Figure 2: In relation to service developments, the following activities are underway or planned for within Trusts:
8. Priorities listed by all Health Boards and Trusts as an essential step to developing a culturally competent service for the NHS in Scotland
As part of the questionnaire all Health Boards and Trusts were asked to prioritise and rank in order of importance three out of six areas that they might need support to help them to begin to develop a sensitive and culturally competent service of the NHS in Scotland.
RESPONSE ANALYSIS - PRIORITY AGENDA FOR SCOTLAND
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Priority Task |
Number of Replies |
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Anti-discriminatory and Cultural Awareness Training |
31 |
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Capacity Building for Policy and Practice |
23 |
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Interpreting and Translation |
20 |
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Advocacy |
19 |
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Recruitment, Selection and Development of Staff |
17 |
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Monitoring |
15 |
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Others |
1* |
* Embed strategies on ethnic minority/multi-cultural development within national strategies for service planning + delivery (e.g. Scottish Health Plan, HIPs, TIPs)
What is immediately obvious is that the priorities cannot be undertaken, independently. They are mutually reinforcing and when addressed together will lead to a prolonged and lasting health gain for the community.
It is perhaps unsurprising to note that the priorities as agreed by the Boards and Trusts reflect the poor responses given to questions, which raised similar issues during the interviews (Figure 3 and 4 respectively).
Figure 3: Indicate responses received from Health Boards to key questions and bear some relation to priorities, which has been suggested by them:
Figure 4: Indicate responses received from Health Trusts to key questions and bear some relation to priorities, which has been suggested by them:
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