Tell Us How It Is
We are working with Public Health Scotland and Homeless Network Scotland to ensure the voices of LGBTQ+ people are heard in the upcoming review of Public Health Scotland’s Equality and Diversity Training Guide. This will help to improve access to appropriate services and treatments for everyone, regardless of their personal characteristics and identity.
Public services have a legal duty to ensure that they do not discriminate against members of the communities they serve, because of their age, gender, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religious belief or disability. This means that services will ask for information relating to these characteristics to monitor how well they are doing.
Public Health Scotland, Homeless Network Scotland and University of Strathclyde are working together to host some sessions to support the creation of a resource to support healthcare staff to ask questions about a patient’s personal characteristics, in a way that builds confidence and supports the patient to answer fully. They hope to better understand the range of reasons that people have for not answering these questions, this may include a lack of trust, fear of discrimination or differential access to treatment and services.
Sessions in partnership with LGBT Health and Wellbeing will take place in Glasgow towards the end of October, and will be facilitated by Derek from Homeless Network Scotland alongside a member of the Health Improvement Scotland Team and a Lived Experience associate.
If you are interested in taking part and sharing your views please contact glasgow@lgbthealth.org.uk or 0141 255 1767 by 17th October.
For more information contact Derek at Derek@homelessnetwork.scot or 07411 451 689, letting him know where you found out about the review.
