About Us
- NRCEMH
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The National Resource Centre for Ethnic Minority Health (NRCEMH) is a unit of NHS Health Scotland
and assists NHS Boards to develop sensitive and culturally competent services to black and minority
ethnic groups, to reduce inequalities and to improve the health of these communities.
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Established in 2002 under the Scottish Executive's Fair for All guidance,
NRCEMH supports Boards on delivery of their duties under this guidance and under the Race Relations
Amendment Act 2000 by means of:
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- Management of networks for sharing experience
- Development of tools and resources to assist Boards in their work
- Promotion of practice that will achieve change for patients
- Catalysing change in organisations
- Giving information, support and advice
- Our Team
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Find out more about those who make up the NRCEMH team by reading their individual biographies:
- Director NRCEMH
- Dr. Rafik Gardee
- Policy Project Manager
- Eleanor McKnight
- Communications and Planning Project Manager
- Christopher Homfray
- Project Administrator
- Maureen Dunn
- Project Administrator
- Carrie McNeil
- Specialist Dietician
- Sunita Wallia
- Asylum Seeker/Refugee Nurse Co-ordinator
- Ann C. McDonald
- Community Development Manager
- Parveen Khan
- Mental Health Project Manager
- Dale Meller
- Partnership Working
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NRCEMH works in partnership with many other units of NHS Scotland and beyond.
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Our key partners include organisations and individuals in black and minority ethnic
communities and statutory and voluntary bodies working with these communities.
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We work closely with the Patient Focus Public Involvement team in the Scottish
Executive Health Department, with all Scottish NHS Boards and with the other
"equality units" supporting Boards:
- LGBT Inclusion
- www.lgbthealthscotland.org.uk/home.htm
- Fair for All Disability
- www.drc-gb.org/fair4all/
- Healthcare Chaplaincy Training and Development
- www.chaplains.co.uk/
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Through these partnerships, NRCEMH contributes to driving forward Fair for All - the Wider Challenge.
