Mental Health 'RACISM'
Chief executive of an NHS Trust has claimed that by the cause of "institutional racism" in the health service, Asian
patients suffering depression and many other mental health problems are missing out on treatment .Women from south Asian backgrounds are twice as likely to commit suicide than the rest of theAntony Sheehan, "The mental health service had effectively chosen not to engage with the Asian community.We really should know impact of institutional racism is there in mental health and other health and social care services as well as it has been recognised in the criminal justice system.The real issue is just how we have chosen and not to connect with the community."population, and there are concerns that this may be in part due to their failure to get help with mental problems.
According to chief executive of Leicestershire NHS Trust,Lord Patel of Bradford,the chairman of the Mental Health Act Commission,said to BCC,"Greater efforts are created to offer support to Asian communities but even they could suffer similar levels of problems to black African and Caribbean groups, which are vastly over-represented in mental health institutions. People from these ethnic groups are as much as 18 times more nearly to end up in a mental institution than the national average.System must be alert to signs that people from Asian backgrounds are also experiencing problems.If we neglect these messages in the next 10 to 20 years we wil see the same numbers of south Asian people ending up in the mental health system as young black African and Caribbean people are doing now, and that's completely unacceptable in the 21st century."
patients suffering depression and many other mental health problems are missing out on treatment .Women from south Asian backgrounds are twice as likely to commit suicide than the rest of theAntony Sheehan, "The mental health service had effectively chosen not to engage with the Asian community.We really should know impact of institutional racism is there in mental health and other health and social care services as well as it has been recognised in the criminal justice system.The real issue is just how we have chosen and not to connect with the community."population, and there are concerns that this may be in part due to their failure to get help with mental problems.According to chief executive of Leicestershire NHS Trust,Lord Patel of Bradford,the chairman of the Mental Health Act Commission,said to BCC,"Greater efforts are created to offer support to Asian communities but even they could suffer similar levels of problems to black African and Caribbean groups, which are vastly over-represented in mental health institutions. People from these ethnic groups are as much as 18 times more nearly to end up in a mental institution than the national average.System must be alert to signs that people from Asian backgrounds are also experiencing problems.If we neglect these messages in the next 10 to 20 years we wil see the same numbers of south Asian people ending up in the mental health system as young black African and Caribbean people are doing now, and that's completely unacceptable in the 21st century."
