Event details
This online conference hosted by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) is free of charge to RCGP members and £200 for non-members.
This is the first in a 2-part series of one-day conferences addressing clinical issues arising from health inequalities and demonstrating how GPs can positively influence health inequalities as practitioners and community leaders.
Health inequalities are differences in health across the population and between different groups in society that are systematic, unfair and avoidable. General Practice, with its unrivalled access to the heart of communities, has a key role in addressing both causes and consequences of health inequalities in the UK. General Practice is a diverse profession caring for multiple patient populations and the aim of the conference is to move from conversations to actions, improving patient care in these communities. This programme was put together by RCGP Officers, Faculty Education Leads and expert speakers, who are participating throughout the day and will include examples of best practice, relevant guidance and links to useful resources.
Learning objectives:
- Understand the evidence linking ethnicity, protected characteristics, and health outcomes
- Acknowledge minority patients' perspectives of health and illness
- Promote the best clinical management within primary care
- Promote partnerships working with relevant organisations and community assets to improve patient care
Areas to be covered:
- Incorporating health inequalities into training portfolios
- Migrant health and asylum seekers in hotels
- Black women with period issues or fertility concerns
- Health in gypsy and traveller communities
- Language discrimination
- Ramadan clinical management
- Trans health
- Social prescribing as a tool for tackling health inequalities
- Mental health
- Improving the health and well-being for communities in deprived areas
Keynote speaker: Dr Margaret Ikpoh, RCGP Vice Chair Professional Development