Race Equality webinar, held on Monday 5 June 2023.

This webinar covered solutions-based interventions that NHS leaders have been implementing to address the needs of underserved communities to improve their health outcomes.

Find the slides here.

Hear Kathy McLean discuss their system's approach to improving population health, how they connect with local authorities and place alliance groups to address health inequalities for the community, and how they use their WRES data to support ethnic minority colleagues.

Hear Jenny Lewis and Michelle Stanley outline their work with local charities (e.g., Growing Points) and partners to support disadvantaged communities, their geographically and demographically targeted campaigns to address health inequalities, and their work with Leeds Health and Care Academy to connect communities through health and care careers.

Hear Rob Aitchinson share their dashboards to monitor progression into apprenticeships, how they engaged with ethnic minority communities over the pandemic to reduce the impact of Covid-19, and how they created a vulnerability prioritisation tool to support communities most in need.

Listen to the individual Q&As (Kathy 18:35, Jenny and Michelle 29:27, Rob 18:08) and the panel Q&A where delegates ask questions on:

• the impact of the cost of living on health inequalities
• whether strategies for health inequalities has been affected by the current climate
• how boards monitor the health inequalities agenda - what metrics are used to measure impact
• how to ensure there is accountability for everyone involved
• how to support ethnic minority colleagues into leadership and management
• how to adjust targets to ensure stretch
• how to ensure the development of middle managers
• how a flip-recruitment model can support with employment pathways
• why it is important to bring race equality and health inequalities together
• how to ensure colleagues know about health inequalities strategies and how to harness their enthusiasm 
• how to engage meaningfully with communities and understand what they need
• how to incorporate the CORE20PLUS5 metrics
• how to prioritise on waitlists and engage the users of the prioritisation tools, without it being tick-box.

Chair: Dr MaryAnn Ferreux – Medical director, Kent, Surrey and Sussex Academic Health Science Network and associate non-executive director, Kent and Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust.

Panellists:

Kathy McLean – Chair, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton
Jenny Lewis – Director of HR and OD, The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Michelle Stanley – Head of Leeds One Workforce, Leeds Health and Care Academy
Rob Aitchison – Deputy chief executive, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust.