Warwickshire where you will be able to participate in a special
online event specifically designated for the Portuguese
community.
This is an ideal opportunity for you to voice your experiences,
opinions and concerns of mental health provision in South
Warwickshire with regards to the Portuguese community. We
want to know what is working, and what is not? What needs
to change? How can services deliver a service that is culturally
more competent?
This is a great opportunity to communicate with the BME Health
and Diversity team with regards to what you think is lacking or
working in the area of mental health provision. We need you to
come forward and to share either the good or really bad
experiences. This way you can shape the services you receive.
Share your thoughts through stories, or anecdotes, or however
you feel appropriate. Please be creative – it could be through
art, poetry, animation or even creative writing. You choose!
The Blog will is open now for postings and will remain open for
a period of just over three months; the deadline – September
30th. Please get your thoughts to us quick and we shall have a
post event review shortly following the closing date.
We look forward to hearing from you!
a period of just over three months; the deadline – September
30th. Please get your thoughts to us quick and we shall have a
post event review shortly following the closing date.
We look forward to hearing from you!
11 comments:
A NHS não ajuda as minorias comunitárias especialmente os GP e os servoços de saude mental.
Gostaria atravez deste blog demonstrar o meu descontentamento apesar de ter receio de represalias por dizer a verdade. Tentem ajudar o Sr Mario que esta a tentar fazer algo para a comunidade Portuguesa em Leamington apesar de todos os problemas que ele tem.
Sofro de problemas mentais e tenho que ir a Portugal ver medicos porque em Inglaterra ninguem me ajuda, nunca há tradutores.
Como poço falar com um psicologo se ele não fala a minha lingua?
Triste.......... mas eu trabalho e pago impostos SERÁ QUE SOU UM CIDADÃO DE SEGUNDA CLASSE?
O que vao fazer com os comentarios que se fazem aqui?
Nao consigo arranjar um dentista em Leamington. Tenho que ir a Portugal para ver 1. Nao falo Ingles quando vou ao medico nao consigo dizer-lhe o que sinto (so quando o Sr Mario) vai comigo e que consigo.
Eu sei que somos uma minoria mas temos direitos? ou nao? Se eu fosse preto ou indiano talvez fosse outra historia.
Que planos tem o WDC para ajudar o Sr. Mario na tasca dificil que ele tem?
Porque nao temos tradutores quando vamos ao medico ou hospital?
Will you answer all the questions or remarks?
As highlighted in the event advert we shall be having a post event review after the 30th of September where all comments will be digested by the team and constructive feedback will be given...thanks.
We have had a request from a few community members to extend the closing date for this event to enable them to put a few comments down. The team will happily keep this event running into early next week enabling the remainder of the ideas or issues to come fourth before we give feedback. We look forward to hearing from you!
It is nice to see someone taking an interest in the BME Health issues. As you can see from the comments the majority of people would like the provision of Interpreters to be widely available.
Some comments I have seen on the Blog are to express fear of recrimination, should they make a complaint.
I think the blog has been very worth while and should be available on permanent basis, so people can share their experiences.
Because of some the discrimination still taken place people are choosing to return to their own country to seek medical treatment and advise. Is it right when they work and pay taxes like everybody else?
Tivemos um pedido de alguns membros da comunidade para prorrogar a data-limite para este evento, que lhes permitam colocar algumas observações para baixo. A equipa irá manter este acontecimento feliz em correr no começo da próxima semana que permita o restante das idéias ou questões de vir quarto antes de nos dar retorno. Estamos ansiosos para ouvir você!
A POST EVENT REVIEW:
I would like to firstly thank everybody for sending in there comments. I would also like to acknowledge the dissatisfaction that certain people feel – this is why we are here… to help improve!
I appreciate it is not acceptable for tax paying citizens to have to go abroad for health care – it defeats the whole objective of being an active citizen and the adult health directorate certainly regards everybody from all minorities to be active citizens.
The action points that I shall take from this event will be:
• The lack of use of interpreters at the local GP services – and with psychological interventions, resulting to the inability for Portuguese users to articulate and express themselves
• The feeling of being excluded from services
• Extra support to support Mario and the Portuguese project.
These comments and points will be passed onto the BME service user representative who will express these concerns at the next mental health service user meeting which is eminent in the middle of October. Equally so I would like to inform all the participants of this event that a BME ‘Service Delivery Group’, will be reforming in January 2009, which will include commissioners, managers and stakeholders to the mental health services. These issues will be raised at this meeting which in the past has been very successful in rectifying and problem solving BME issues in mental health.
I will feed back the comments from the BME service user representative onto this page and onto a separate event to keep all parties informed of the actions that will be further taken to these issues.
I would just like to remind people that this service is here to enforce change as a result of many government consultations and inquiries – hence the ‘Real Voices’ document (2003) – Department of health, and the ‘Inside Outside’ report.
The BME team has had many successes in raising the profile of BME issues and hopes to continue to do so as long as people keep us informed and are not afraid to come forward to instigate change.
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