ABSTRACT
The programme on Delivering Race Equality in mental health care has been working to address inequalities in care. These inequalities cannot take a reductionist approach to understanding these inequalities. Individual identities are complex comprising many overlapping aspects of lived experience. A better, systems-wide understanding of care services is also needed to address any inequalities, rather than focusing on one aspect, such as admission rates. To achieve equality of access, experience and outcome we need to review and improve whole pathways of care. The Enhancing Pathways into Care project has been helpful in furthering this understanding of quality improvement and exploring practical approaches to delivering the desired equality. The equalities programme for mental health is building on this understanding for better quality services.
