Welcome to The Big Ideas, a podcast series exploring how data shapes our understanding of health and inequalities and how to make the collection and use of data more inclusive to inspire a more equitable future.
The podcast series is part of the Social and Economic Predictors of Severe Mental Disorders (SEP-MD) research project led by Dr Jayati Das-Munshi from King’s College London and affiliated with the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health and the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre.
In this episode, ‘Tackling systemic mental health inequalities’, host Milena Wuerth, Research Assistant, King’s College London is joined by Annette Davis who is a carer and Chair for PCREF Carer and Service User Group, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to discuss ethnic inequalities that exist within mental health systems, and how this can be addressed through the patient and carer race equality framework (PCREF). Annette was involved in the service user and carer advisory group for SEP-MD. Annette reflects on how improved recording of ethnicity in health records is needed to improve mental health care provision. She also reflects on the challenges of tackling race equality in mental health care provision and the importance of involving service users and carers in this journey to tackle systems change.
The Big Ideas was produced by Words of Colour: www.wordsofcolour.co.uk
The Big Ideas is a special 4-part series of Our Sick Society, a podcast where researchers from the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health and people with lived experience explore together how social factors contribute to mental health problems. The podcast encourages listeners to think and question society’s role in mental health - what are the systems and the structures which mean that some people are more likely to become mentally unwell than others?
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