Department of Spiritual Care, Specialist Chaplain, UK
Review Article
An Investigation into why People from Ethnic Minorities Seem not use
Compassionate Communities Services as much as others at the UHCW
NHS Trust
Author(s): John Matipano*
This service review sought to find out why Ethnic Minorities were under represented or not represented at all in the services that the chaplaincy department seeks to offer under Compassionate Communities (CoCo). Compassionate Communities is an initiative by the Chaplaincy Department at UHCW NHS Trust to extend the support services that Chaplains and Chaplaincy volunteers given to patients in terms pastoral care when they are inpatients in our hospitals and extend the same to them when they are in the community, especially those patients that have complex healthcare needs or have a terminal illness. From the current support groups run by CoCo like RIPPLE and TAB it was quite apparent that Ethnic Minorities were underrepresented. This Service Review (study) adopted the narrative as a method of data collection. The results from the narratives collected were never meant to be representati.. View More»
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