Barts Health Equality and Human Rights Impact Assessment Report

www.brap.org.ukSource: Husbands, S., Chau, K., Health Inequalities and Equality Impact Assessment of ‘Healthcarefor London: consulting the capital’, Scientific Annex I Health Equity Profile (2008)Clearly the table above shows significant gaps in available data that was routinely recordedin 2008. Conducting our review in 2012, brap has identified additional information that will beof use to Barts Health in future planning and measuring progress on health inequalities.However, as the rest of this section shows, the extent to which data gaps exist in relation toparticular protected characteristics is still significant.1.4 Structure of findingsFindings are organised in relation to three broad areas:i) Health outcomes: this is the largest section and is organised in relation to key service areasand conditions. Where local data benefits from additional regional or national data to providecontext, or where local data is particularly sparse, regional and/or national data has beenincluded to support Barts Health to conduct further enquiriesii) Experience of healthcare: information from inpatient and outpatient surveys are used toexamine performance on key aspects of patient experience (focusing in particular on issuesthat relate to human rights and CQC Essential Standards of Care). GP Patient Surveyresults are also used to provide an indication of patterns in experience of local primary care.iii) Access to healthcare: information from patient admission results are compared todemographic profiles of the population. GP Patients Survey results (levels of registration forpeople with particular protected characteristics) are used to assess levels of access to localprimary care122