Patient Carer Race Equality Framework

PCREF is a recommendation from the national Mental Health Act Review to eliminate the unacceptable racial disparity Mental Health Trusts see in Access, Experience and Outcomes (AEO) and to improve the trust and confidence of Black communities in our services.

NHS England has launched its first ever anti-racism framework: the Patient and carer race equality framework (PCREF), for all NHS mental health trusts and mental health service providers to embed across England.

This mandatory framework will support trusts and providers on their journeys to becoming actively anti-racist organisations by ensuring that they are responsible for co-producing and implementing concrete actions to reduce racial inequalities within their services.

It will become part of Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspections.

We work with various community partners:

Acacia Acacia Family Support | Prenatal Depression and Postnatal Depression Support Services | Birmingham

Making Connections Work Home – Making Connections Work

Association of Jamaican Nationals Association of Jamaican Nationals (Birmingham) UK – Charity, Jamaican Nationals, Charity, Nonprofit (ajn-birmingham.org)

Catalyst4change BME Mental Health | West Midlands Hub | CATALYST 4 Change

Derby Gypsy Liaison Group Derbyshire Gypsy Liaison Group – Home (dglg.org)

Nishkam Healthcare Trust Nishkam Healthcare Trust

The 1928 Institute The 1928 Institute

We have also worked with the BreezeLab and Maternity Engagement Action CIC (Maternity Engagement Action | Engaging Perinatal Families For Better Maternal Outcomes) to facilitate coproduction sessions for a Black women’s persona in perinatal services.

Why do we need this?

 

Data consistently highlights that people from ethnic minority backgrounds (especially Black backgrounds) are:

More likely to be detained under the Act.

More likely to enter the system through a criminal justice route.

More likely to be detained in hospital for longer.

More likely to be subject to ongoing conditions under the Act following discharge from hospital.

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