What is the Health Inequalities Programme?

The ‘Diabetes Health Inequalities Programme’ (DHIP) aimed to fund initiatives focused on improving care for those groups likely to experience greater health inequalities in the Cheshire and Merseyside & Lancashire and South Cumbria areas.

The DHIP  focussed on looking for improvements for diabetes prevention, treatment and self-care for patients from the following target groups: people from BAME backgrounds, learning disabilities, LGBT+, care homes, mental health, prison health, travelling community, homeless, young adults in transition to adult services, high risk patients, rare forms of diabetes and children with type 2 diabetes.

Health professionals involved in caring for people with diabetes, diabetes teams, community groups, charities, primary care networks, learning disability teams, criminal justice, Local Authority, Public Health put in bids for funding last year. ​

Many of the successfully awarded programmes are running and will yield learning and deliver good practice which will be translatable across the region.

Click this link to view the Diabetes Health Inequalities Report: North West Coast Clinical Network