Member

Amendment 49, also in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Tyler, seeks to create a new role of a responsible person. We agree that there is a need to improve organisational leadership, improve data collection and change culture across the mental health system. This is exactly what the patient and carer race equality framework is designed to achieve; it requires a nominated executive lead at board level, who is accountable for the delivery and oversight of the framework and implementing culturally appropriate care. This is now part of the NHS standard contract and, I am glad to say, applies both to the NHS and independent providers of NHS-commissioned care. It builds on the duties that apply already under the Equality Act 2010.