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Black and minority ethnic mental health:

• Policy and issues | in Our campaigns
  Mind works to improve the lives of people with mental distress through working to influence MPs, government ministers, opinion formers and service providers, to improve legislation and services.
• Still no progress: mixed sex wards and racial inequalities | in News Story
  Patient research released today by the Healthcare Commission has revealed that a shocking 68 per cent of mental health inpatients are still being housed on mixed sex wards.
• Diverse Minds | in Become a Mind member
• Refugees and asylum seekers | in Migrant mental health
  Refugees and asylum seekers often experience mental distress. Mind is campaigning to raise policy makers' awareness of the difficulty they have in getting support for their mental health issues.
• Black and minority ethnic mental health | in Policy and issues
  Mind works for changes in mental health policy and practice to remedy inequalities experienced by people from black and minority ethnic communities.
• Diverse Minds | Current projects | in Black and minority ethnic mental health
• Diverse Minds | Background and aims | in Black and minority ethnic mental health
  The needs of people from different cultural, religious and ethnic communities are often not met in mental health services. Mind works for changes in mental health policy and practice to remedy inequalities experienced by people from black and minority eth
• South Asian community in Britain | in Information and advice
• Treading water | in Campaign report
  It was 1992 when I first became involved in the mental health system. I got to know a young man who, like me, is Black and has a love of African jazz music.
• Never again | in Campaign report
  The Department of Health has preached for several years the importance of user/consumer involvement in health service development.
• MindThink report 1: Putting the soul back into psychiatry | in Campaign report
  How does psychiatry related to service users? Does the training of psychiatrists equip them to work effectively in the modern world? Can psychiatry operate across cultural boundaries? Can it take religious beliefs seriously?
• Mind comments on shocking true picture of mixed-sex wards and racial discrimination in NHS | in News Story
• Black and Minority Ethnic leaders call for service reconfiguration and training to end racism in the NHS | in News Story
  On World Mental Health Day, Black and Minority Ethnic leaders call for service reconfiguration and training to end racism in the NHS
• Census supports Mind concerns over racism in the NHS | in News Story
  Black people more likely to be hospitalised, detained, secluded and subjected to control and restraint.
• Mind welcomes Government's commitment to 'Delivering Race Equality' but highlights concerns on key issues | in News Story
  However, while commending the Government's stated commitment to reducing racial discrimination in the NHS, Mind continues to highlight concerns over the potential lack of delivery on a number of key issues.
• MindThink report 4: Psychiatry, race and culture | in Campaign report
  There is a sizable body of evidence detailing the over-representation and disproportionately negative experiences of BME people within secure mental health settings.
• Vision and reality | in Campaign report
  Is independent mental health advocacy working for black and minority ethnic service users? asks Marcel Vige
• A civilised society: Mental health provision for refugees and asylum-seekers in England and Wales | in Campaign report
  Restrictive government policies are functioning to socially exclude and marginalise refugees and asylum-seekers, both exacerbating causing mental distress.
• Improving mental health support for refugee communities - an advocacy approach | in Campaign report
  The Refugee and asylum-seeker mental health advocacy project was developed to build a better understanding of the mental health concerns of refugees and asylum-seekers.
• UK puts mental health of refugees and asylum seekers at risk | in News Story
  Mind launches new reports looking at the issues around the mental health of refugees and asylum seekers.
• Mental health services for refugees and asylum seekers - a messy picture | in Blog Post
  Better support and understanding is needed.
• Diverse Minds | Reports and resources | in Black and minority ethnic mental health
• November/December issue of Openmind out now | in News Story
  Check out the latest issue of the UK's only editorially independent mental health magazine.
• Racial equality in mental health stuck at a standstill | in News Story
  The results of the Care Quality Commission's latest Count me in census.
• Inexcusable racial inequalities unchanged in six years | in News Story
  Final Count-me-in census from the Care Quality Commission shows sustained discrimination in mental health.
• A collective failure for race equality in mental health | in Blog Post
  Paul Farmer says the whole mental health community needs to work together to make race equality a reality.
• The end of delivering race equality? | in Campaign report
  As the Delivering Race Equality programme drew to a close, Rights and Wellbeing of Racialised Groups (RawOrg) gathered the views of key players to assess its achievements and shortfalls.
• Different pasts, shared futures: Refugee week 2011 | in Blog Post
  "Two-thirds of refugees in the UK have experienced anxiety or depression". Sile blogs about Refugee week 2011, launching on Monday.
• Black History Month 2011: some reflections on ethnicity and psychiatry | in Blog Post
  In the first of four blogs marking Black History Month, Sashi Sashidharan looks at the historical role of race in Western psychiatric theory and practice.
• The importance of remembering | in Blog Post
  Patrick Vernon writes about some of the remarkable people who survived abuse in Victorian asylums and why it’s so important to continue to record people's experiences. Some readers may find the start of this blog triggering.
• The 'recovery' mantra | in Blog Post
  In the third blog of our series celebrating Black History Month, Frank Keating meets a man with reasons to be happy and wonders if it's time for a different approach to mental health in the UK.
• Race, ethnicity and the mental health strategy | in Blog Post
  In the final blog marking Black History Month, Diverse Minds manager Marcel Vige looks at how we can keep black and minority ethnic groups on the Government's mental health agenda in hard economic times.
• Psychiatric drugs: key issues and service user perspectives | in Books

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