Self Directed Care

BME Self Directed Care improves personal choices, independent living, health & wellness.

BME Self Directed Care Project aims to increase awareness and take up a Direct Payments, Individualised Budgets & Self Managed Care Support amongst Black Minority & Ethnic (BME) people with substantial health needs or disabilities and their carers across London Boroughs of Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow.

The project increases access to advice, information and advocacy; and also improving capacity of BME organisations and health and social care providers to support people with substantial health needs, disabilities and their carers.
We have built a BME Health Providers Consortium to improve inter organisational collaborations, develop or offer services to clients across different communities and boroughs, explore opportunities for social enterprise and contracts in health and social care market and amongst others.

Self-directed support is the name given to a way of redesigning the social care system so that the people who get services can take much greater control over them.

The project seeks to improve engagement between NHS, commissioners, allied health professionals, third sector and BME communities, and also increases choices to access culturally appropriate services and culturally appropriate care planning, commissioning and brokerage services.