Ethnic minorities: useful links

The UK Department of Health has information about its work on race equality.

The Equalities and Planning Directorate of NHS Health Scotland provides a centre of expert advice and support to NHS Scotland on delivering equality and diversity, eliminating discrimination and reducing health inequalities.  

The NHS ethnicity and health specialist library is part of the NHS National Library for Health.

The Scottish Executive's anti-racism campaign is One Scotland.

The Centre for Evidence in Ethnicity, Health and Diversity at the University of Warwick provides information about ethnicity and health. 

The Equality and Human Rights Commission came into being in 2007, replacing the functions of the Commission for Racial Equality, the Disability Rights Commission and the Equal Opportunities Commission.

The South Asian Health Foundation site provides reports relevant to the health of South Asians including a monograph on Heart Disease in South Asians  (690Kb).

Equality in Scotland: guide to data sources is an interactive tool developed by the Scottish Government.

The Scottish Government's Equality Unit provides information on all the equality strands.

The ISD Equality and Diversity Information Programme aims to improve the quality of routine information on ethnicity from the health service.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde have an Equalities in Health site with a range of useful resources.

MEMO is a weekly bulletin of information of interest to minority ethnic communities in Scotland, including parliamentary activity at Holyrood and Westminster, new publications, consultations, forthcoming conferences and news reports.