Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Health
Making connections across sectors to improve health outcomes for people from London's black and minority ethnic communities
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Our Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic health priority area is now mainstreamed across the LHC programme.
November 2006: response to the London Assembly's Review of community-based services for people with mental health problems.
Forum activities have included:
- Progressing the recommendations of the Association of London Government ALG's 2001 report, Sick of Being Excluded. ( ALG were renamed London Councils September 2006)
- Steering the development of a strategy to improve access to quality language support services within London's public sector services.
- Campaigning for the recording of ethnicity data to inform action on and monitoring of health and inequalities among black and minority ethnic communities.
- Organisations that were represented on this forum include: Commission for Patient & Public Involvement in Health, Age Concern London, Royal College of Midwives, Commission for Racial Equality, Refugee Council, Asian Health Network, AMICUS, Race on the Agenda, Afiya Trust and Lewisham Community Development Partnership.
Melba Wilson, Wandsworth PCT Chair and LHC Deputy Chair was the chair of the forum and still champions BAME issues on the LHC.Secretariat support is provided to the forum by the ALG.
London Councils and the London Development Centre contribute funding for the language support service strategy development, and the King's Fund has pledged support for its implementation.
