Franklin Oikelome and Ronny Flynn on the NHS equality record
The NHS is the largest single employer in the UK, employing over a million people. Since its inception, it has relied on a workforce with a high proportion of black and minority ethnic staff, many of whom were actively recruited in the 1950s and 1960s to pioneer the new health service after the Second World War. This has been an asset to an NHS which over 60 years has served an increasingly diverse population: around 10 per cent of the UK population is now from a BME group.
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