We were very fortunate in Highland to have Michelle Young, Equally Well Co-ordinator from Dundee city, facilitate an excellent health inequalities and poverty event for a range of staff and partner organisations. There were a number of common themes which arose during discussions including impact assessing our work around health inequalities and poverty sensitive practice, challenging discrimination and stigma, compassion in our working practices and accessibility and where literacy might be one of the main barriers to this.
Those who attended said there understanding and awareness around this area had increased a lot and that they would recommend this training to others. One attendee went even as far as to say “… should be compulsory for all practitioner within health and social care”.
Here in NHS Highland we deliver Health Inequalities: Why bother? Training. Find out more look at the Prospectus on the Health Improvement Training section of the NHS Highland website. Or if you are looking for something bespoke around health inequalities and poverty, contact us directly at via email.