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How Newham Mental Health directorate are pursuing equity
Posted: 20 July 2022 By Catherine Heaney, Improvement Advisor, ELFT QI Three teams in Newham Adult Mental Health services, are working to pursue equity for those they serve using Quality Improvement (QI) methods as part of the ELFT Pursuing Equity Programme. In this story you can find some short video clips from these teams describing the focus of their... Read More
The first ever ‘Using QI to Tackle Inequity’ workshop in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes
Posted: 12 January 2023 By Lorna Darknell (Inequalities Improvement Advisor at ELFT) ELFT is supporting the Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes (BLMK) integrated care system to use Quality Improvement (QI) in their inequalities programme. Early on, people working in the system said they wanted introductory training in the basics of QI, and how to apply it to inequalities. People... Read More
Pursuing Equity
Posted: 22 April 2022 What is health equity? Equity in healthcare is described as “Absence of unfair, avoidable or remediable differences among groups of people, whether those groups are defined socially, economically, demographically, or geographically or by other dimensions of inequality.” (World Health Organisation) Equity differs from equality, which sees everyone treated the same irrespective of their circumstances. You... Read More
Pursuing Equity Event
Posted: 20 February 2024 Who is this event for? ELFT Staff, service users and carers How do I sign up for the event? Using the form at the bottom of the page Date and time 30th April 2:00-4:30 Venue BMA House, Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9JP Join us for a special event to discuss and learn about equity in... Read More
Pursuing Equity – Equal Access to Tower Hamlets Early Intervention Service Psychology
Posted: 20 July 2022 by Eleanor Addo, Ramla, Shanaz, Catherine Tunnard, Abi Harris, Katie Kelly, Tomazia Galhardo, Fiona Lin, Amani Milligan, Eleanor Nuzum and Elliot Miller Interested in the power of co-production? Want to ensure your service is more equitable? Read how Tower Hamlets Early Intervention Service (THEIS) harnessed co-production to make their service more equitable and increase and... Read More
Pursuing Equity Perinatal Project
Posted: 20 July 2022 Justine Cawley, ELFT Trustwide Lead for Perinatal Mental Health In this clip you can hear from Justine on how they are working to support improving outcomes for women experiencing perinatal mental health issues. Hear why it’s important to some of the groups most impacted by the issue. You will also hear what the team are... Read More
Aiming beyond equality to reach equity: the promise and challenge of quality improvement
Posted: 21 July 2021 Quality improvement must move beyond only measuring average quality and change and focus on equity to support achieving the quality needed for effective universal health coverage, argue Lisa Hirschhorn and colleagues in this paper published in the BMJ.
Pursuing Equity Programme Session One
Posted: 22 April 2022 Please find the presentation given during Pursuing Equity Learning Session 1 on 22nd April 2022
Taking over an existing pursuing equity project to improve LGBTQI+ patient experience of safety
Posted: 30 March 2023 By Nic Makomva, Life Skills Recovery Worker Our quality improvement (QI) project started back in spring 2022. At the time, the project was led by the modern matron, I was an active project member together with colleagues and three service users. The project aims to “Improve LGBTQI+ patient experience of safety on the ward by... Read More
