E-bulletin – LARCH update – October 2024

Welcome to the second e-bulletin on the London Anti-Racism Collaboration for Health – a programme designed to empower health and care organisations to use an anti-racist approach to address the health inequalities experienced by Black, Asian and minoritised ethnic Londoners.

Learning and engagement

The first learning and engagement event held on 21 October 2024, looked at ethnicity data and how it can be used to reduce ethnic health inequalities.

Our expert panel included:    

  • Tracey Bignall, Director of Policy and Engagement, Race Equality Foundation, discussing quality issues with ethnicity data collecting and recording.
  • Brenda Hayanga, City, University of London, discussing ethnic inequalities in healthcare for people with multiple long-term conditions.    
  • Macius Kurowski, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, and Manal Sadik, North Middlesex University Hospital, discussing data-led approaches to reducing race-related health inequalities.
  • Mary Hill, NHS England, Head of Policy, Healthcare Inequalities Improvement, discussing data, ethnicity recording, and coding in NHS England.

The event was well attended with representation from all five integrated care services across the London region.

Organisation typeNumber of attendees
NHS Trusts41
Integrated Care Boards18
Local Government/Public Health8
Others (Charities, Research, Education)6

Further information about the event is available on our website.


How can an organisation progress to become truly anti-racist?  

LARCH is developing the Race Equity Maturity Index (REMI) to help organisations manage and assess their progress to become an anti-racist organisation. REMI is a tool with different measures to track an organisation’s development over time and the implementation of anti-racist practice.

We are currently piloting the REMI with a NHS Hospital Trust, Integrated Care Board and the Association of Directors of Public Health. We will be rolling out the REMI late November following its launch and overview at a learning and engagement event.

Further details will be available in due course.

Demonstrating your commitment to anti-racism

An anti-racism statement has been co-produced for health and care organisations to use. This statement was developed with people with lived experience, and the statutory and voluntary and community sector. The statement sets out its purpose and how an organisation can use it as the foundation for change and actions to become anti-racist. Organisational change to embed anti-racist approaches is a positive step to advance health equity for Black, Asian and minoritised ethnic communities.

View and sign up to the statement.

How can you contribute to LARCH?

Anti-racism is the process of actively challenging racism and changing behaviours, attitudes and policies to reduce racial inequalities. It acknowledges that simply not being racist is not enough; for a fairer society we must take positive action. London Anti-Racism Collaboration for Health (LARCH) has brought together stakeholders to formulate, introduce and support anti-racism measures.

We would value your views on one aspect of the programme and hope you can spare 5 minutes to complete a short survey.

Sign up to the LARCH newsletter.


Race Equality Foundation and HIN South London – October 2024

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