The Ethnic Monitoring Toolkit

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 An Ethnic monitoring Toolkit  [365k, approximately 1 minute download time for a 56k connection] has been developed by NHS organisations across Scotland in collaboration with ISD Scotland and the National Resource Centre for Ethnic Minority Health (NRCEMH), NHS Health Scotland.

It incorporates guidelines and training resources to support the planning and implementation of patient ethnicity data collection within NHS Scotland.  It includes policy and legal background (with hyperlinks to drill down for more information on the web) plus guidance on project management and ethnicity classifications. 

A substantial part of the Toolkit is a Communications Guidelines [2.5Mb, approximately 6 minutes download time for a 56k connection] section that incorporates many suggestions for communications approaches and some draft communications materials (i.e. press release, leaflet and Q&A) to support the collection of ethnicity data.

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Definitions of terms used within the Equality and Diversity Information Programme

• Equality
• Diversity
• Ethnic Monitoring
• Ethnic Group