Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework (PCREF)

Introduction

In October 2023, NHS England launched its first ever anti-racism framework: the Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework (PCREF).

It aims to ensure equitable healthcare access, experiences and outcomes for patients and carers from all racial, ethnic and religious backgrounds.

It applies to all NHS mental health trusts in England.

• This mandatory framework will support Trusts and providers on their journeys to becoming actively anti-racist organisations.
• It will do so by ensuring that they are responsible for co-producing and implementing concrete actions.
• These actions aim to improve the access, experience, and outcomes of people from cultural and ethnically diverse communities.

What does anti-racism mean here?

• We must eliminate conditions that perpetuate systemic racism.
• We must carefully consider policies, practices, resource allocation, and service commissioning.
• We must focus on relationships, mutual understanding, power dynamics and a gain a better understanding of different models and conceptions of mental health and mental illness.

Our PCREF Plan

Please follow the link below to access our plan.

Get involved

We actively encourage the involvement of service users, carers, and community members.

We also encourage the involvement of voluntary, community, civil society, and faith groups.