A study authored by Claire Zhang, DPhil candidate at Oxford Population Health has been published to show the inequities in the 6-8 week baby check between different ethnic communities in different regions of England.
Sapna Boden, one of our peer support workers, was part of the Patient and Public Involvement parent advisory group which assisted with formulating the culturally and parent sensitive interpretation of the study’s findings.
Sapna says: “Since having children and working for Mothers for Mothers, I have become more aware of the difference in healthcare amongst our different communities. The inequalities and inequities do exist and can have a lasting impact on someone’s life. I was honoured to be involved in a study which calls for a coordinated action between the ICBs and healthcare professionals to address this avoidable and unfair gap”
If you want to know more about the study, click here Coordinated action is urgently needed to ensure equitable access to routine baby checks | NPEU (ox.ac.uk)
If you would like to read the paper, click here Ethnic inequities in 6–8 week baby check coverage in England 2006– 2021: a cohort study using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink | British Journal of General Practice (bjgp.org)