Ethnic Equality Monitoring

A range of resources have been developed to support putting ethnic equality monitoring in place in the health services. These resources support:

• service users;
• staff;
• health service managers;
• clinicians;
• researchers; and
• others.

Online Training

One of these resources is an online training programme First Steps in Ethnic Equality Monitoring (accessible on HSEland). This training is aimed at:

• hospital and community healthcare staff involved in collecting personal data from service users;
• directors and managers of healthcare services;
• data analysis personnel;
• health or social researchers; and
• staff of community or voluntary sector organisations.

Public Information Poster

This poster explains why we need information about a person’s:

• ethnic group;
• religion;
• country of birth; and
• language.

Public Information Explanation Leaflet

This is a public information explanation leaflet translated into eight languages:

• French,
• German,
• Chinese,
• Romanian,
• Spanish,
• Lithuanian,
• Polish, and
• Russian.

Working Together to Improve our Health – A Guide for Staff

This Guide for Staff helps us to help service users to self-identify their ethnic group, religion and country of birth and language spoken at home.

A Step Guide

A step guide to support putting in place ethnic equality monitoring in health services is being developed.