Contracting and procuring

Service specifications and contracts drawn up between commissioners and provider organisations could do much more to detail why and how services should be configured and delivered to meet the needs of ethnically diverse populations and to overcome ethnic inequalities.

EEiC tools and resources to support this area of work:

• Service specification – exercise with scenario (PDF, 959KB)

• Service specification – guide (PDF, 1MB)

• Common service issues for consideration prompt sheet (PDF, 47KB)

• EEiC mini case study: Self-management services in Coventry were re-specified with input from South Asian people

Further guidance on how to find relevant evidence to inform the design and delivery of services can be found on the accessing knowledge page

Other resources and links

Useful sets of guidance and standards for commissioning advocacy services for black and minority ethnic people have been produced by SCIE and also by Silkap Consultants funded by the King’s Fund.

Maternity Action has produced Guidance for commissioning health services for vulnerable migrant women.