Barts Health Equality and Human Rights Impact Assessment Report

Barts Health Equality and Human Rights Impact Assessment ReportEthnicityLooking at conflated in- and outpatient data for all three Trusts, it appears that people fromAfrican and Caribbean are much more likely to say they are not always as involved indiscussions about their treatment as they would like to be. 67.42% of Caribbean people saidthis was the case, compared to 61.05% of African people and 42.30% of White Britishpeople. This pattern is discernible within individual Trusts, and does not appear to beconcentrated in any one organisation or type of care.When looking at groups who categorically state they were not satisfactorily involved indiscussions about their treatment, people from an African background still featureprominently (20.00%). Interestingly, however, the next two most disadvantaged groups areWhite Other (18.26%) and White Irish (18.18%). See figure 3.4.1a below.Figure 3.4.1a: % of people who were as involved in decisions about their treatment and care as theywould like to be by ethnicity (2010/11) (merged total for all Trusts)149