Health and Social Care and LGBT Communities

Health and Social Care and LGBT Communities
House of Commons Women and Equalities Select Committee 16 October 2019

• LGBT people are being let down in health and social care, by structures and services that are not inclusive or designed with them in mind, and by a lack of leadership in Government, NHS and social services. The Committee has found that deep inequalities exist in health outcomes for these communities and that treating them “the same” as non-LGBT people will not address these poor outcomes.

How to recruit and support disabled staff in the NHS

How to recruit and support disabled staff in the NHS
NHS Employers 18 September 2019

• An interactive toolkit to help you attract, recruit, support and retain disabled staff into your organisation, and represent a diverse workforce that delivers high-quality patient care.

Chairs and non-executives in the NHS: The need for diverse leadership

Chairs and non-executives in the NHS: The need for diverse leadership
NHS Confederation 6 June 2019

• This report examines the arrangements for the recruitment and appointment of chairs and nonexecutives within the NHS (NHS non-executives include chairs and non-executives). The progress and gains made in the early 2000s towards a more diverse board leadership in NHS trusts has gone into reverse or made no progress. Chairs and non-executive directors are often not representative of the communities they serve and the staff they govern.

Whorlton Hall – BBC abuse story

Whorlton Hall – BBC abuse story
BBC 22 May 2019

• The abuse and mistreatment of vulnerable adults at a specialist hospital has been uncovered by the BBC's Panorama programme.
• See Parliamentary response 
• Published in the same week:
• Learning Disabilities Mortality Review (LeDeR) report,
• Government announcement of an investment of £5m “to improve the care for people with an LD” / New measures to improve care for people with autism and learning disabilities
• CQC Interim report: Review of restraint, prolonged seclusion and segregation for people with a mental health problem, a learning disability and or autism

A lifecourse map of 308 physical and mental health conditions

A chronological map of 308 physical and mental health conditions from 4 million individuals in the English National Health Service
Lancet Digital Health 2019; 1: e63–77, 1 June 2019

• This research aims to understand which sections of the population are susceptible to which health conditions and at which ages. It presents a lifecourse map of human health, charting the 50 most common conditions in each decade of life, and the median age at diagnosis for 308 conditions by sex and ethnicity. The results illustrate the varying dominance of different conditions through the passage of life.
•  Supplementary files include data tables of prevalence by age band, sex, and ethnicity across primary-care and secondary-care records in England.

Inequalities in the 21st century: IFS Deaton Review

Inequalities in the 21st century: IFS Deaton Review
Institute of Fiscal Studies 14 May 2019

• The IFS Deaton Review is a comprehensive five-year study of inequalities in society funded by the Nuffield Foundation. The project will draw on a range of diverse perspectives to understand inequalities in income, wealth, health, social mobility, political participation and more. As well as deepening our understanding of inequalities in the twentieth-first century, the review aims to provide solutions.
• Inequalities in the twenty-first century: introducing the IFS Deaton Review