Race Equality Foundation - Improving health services for black and minority ethnic communities

This programme of work aims to develop a national resource to help improve the quality of health and housing provision to black and minority ethnic communities This is being achieved through a series of conferences, seminars and workshops to help embed the evidence and promote good race equality practice in order to encourage and facilitate change in practice and service provision. 

Central to this work is a collection of Better Health briefing papers containing research evidence, good practice tips, resources, and key messages for practice on a range of topics for housing and health practitioners.

Health briefing papers

• Better Health briefing 1: Improving the quality of palliative care (286kb PDF file).
• Better Health briefing 2: Effective communication with service users (323kb PDF file).
• Better Health briefing 3: Ethnic inequalities in health: the impact of racism (181kb PDF file)
• Better Health briefing 4: The recruitment and retention of black and minority ethnic staff in the National Health Service (146kb PDF file).
• Better Health briefing 5: African and Caribbean men and mental health (23kb PDF file).
• Better Health briefing 6: Tackling health inequalities for minority ethnic groups: challenges and opportunities (322kb PDF file).
• Better Health briefing 7: User participation in health care services (167kb PDF file).
• Better Health briefing 8: Long-term ill health, poverty and ethnicity (227kb PDF file).
• Better Health briefing 9: The health and social care experiences of black and minority ethnic older people (358kb PDF file)
• Better Health briefing 10: Health experiences of Chinese people in the UK (346kb PDF file)
• Better Health briefing 11: Addressing ethnic inequalities in maternity service experiences and outcomes: responding to women’s needs and preferences (302kb PDF file)
• Better Health briefing 12: The health of Gypsy and Travellers in the UK (156kb PDF file)