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MindEd (minded.org.uk, Health Education England, 2018) is a free, widely used, online learning resource about mental health, available world-wide. That some organisations which MindEd approached to recruit co-authors, and some older co-authors, expressed expectations of encountering judgmental and domineering NHS staff, means that we also need to consider and investigate why such views of the caring professions perpetuate. [Extracted from the article]

The Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Old Age Faculty withdrew College Report CR156, Psychiatric Services for Black and Minority Ethnic Older People (Shah et al., 2009) in 2014. This is in line with recent United Kingdom (UK) government National Health Service proposals and the range of diversity encompassed by the Equality Act (2010). The Act refers to “protected characteristics” including age, disability, religion or belief, race (based on colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins), and sexual orientation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]