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Improving Mental services for Black and Ethnic Minority Communities

The Delivering Race Equality in Mental Healthcare Programme was formed in 2005 to co-ordinate the 78 sets of actions of the Delivering Race Equality in Mental Healthcare Action plan produced by the  Department of Health. It is a five year action plan for achieving equality and tackling discrimination in mental health services in England. It is designed to tackle mental health inequalities for all people of Black and Minority Ethnic status, including people of Irish or Mediterranean origin and East European migrants. It also includes the Government's response to the recommendations made by Inquiry into the tragic death of David Bennett. The action plan has the potential to improve the care for any group affected by disparity in health and healthcare, including BME older people, children and adolescents, refugees and asylum seekers Read more.