Barts Health Equality and Human Rights Impact Assessment Report

www.brap.org.ukThese discrepancies may be a result of lower access by particular groups, but it is alsoimportant to note that they may also be a result of drawbacks to the projected populationfigures we have used to estimate total population of each borough.In each of three PCT areas, women are more likely to visit their GP than men. Women arealso more likely to visit a GP than the composition of local communities might suggest: Newham: 55.1% of people accessing GP services are women; however, womencomprise 51.1% of the local population Tower Hamlets: 54.6% of people accessing GP services are women; however, womencomprise 51.0% of the local population Waltham Forest: 57.5% of people accessing GP services are women; however, womencomprise 50.0% of the local population4.2 Patient populationsWithin the timescales dictated by the project, Barts and the London were unavailable toprovide an equalities profile of their patient population.Within Newham, people from a White Other background are significantly more likely toattend A&E than their profile in the local community might suggest (11.4% of attendees;5.3% of the local population). It may be useful to compare this figure with the high number ofpeople from a White Other background who said they had poor experiences of GP surgeriesand were unaware of GP opening times (see section IV.3.5).This discrepancy is also observable within the inpatient population, of whom people with aWhite Other background comprise 10.9%.Women make up 63% of all inpatients at Newham and 72% of all outpatients.Within Whipps Cross, people from Pakistani and White Other backgrounds comprise thelargest BME groups when looking at figures for admissions, outpatients, and A&Eattendances – 8.2% (this is compared with the Pakistani community comprising 6.7% of theWaltham Forest population, and people from a White Other background 6.8%). White Britishpeople are generally underrepresented in these figures, comprising 47.0% of the patientprofile, but 53.4% of the Waltham Forest population.Women make up 60% of the patient profile.The information relating to ethnicity is summarised on the following pages.152