All Ethnic minorities articles – Page 3
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NewsThe 50 most influential Black, Asian and minority ethnic people in health: Full list
The top 50 most influential Black, Asian and minority ethnic leaders in English health and care – listed alphabetically
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NewsGlobal majority leaders are now part of the NHS establishment
What will strike readers first about the 2024 HSJ list of the most influential people in health policy and the NHS with a global majority background is how unsurprising it is.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2024: Improving Health Outcomes for Minority Ethnic Communities
WINNER Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust: Establishing a Substantive Health Equity Team and Embedding a Holistic Approach to Improving Equity in Maternity Services
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2024: Learning Disabilities Initiative of the Year
WINNER Bradford District Care FT: The Keeping My Chest Healthy Respiratory Pathway and Digital Hub
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NewsBlack bank staff six times more likely to be disciplined
Black British bank workers are nearly six times more likely to enter a formal disciplinary, compared to their white colleagues, NHS England analysis has found.
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HSJ LocalHospital sets target to recruit more staff from deprived areas
An acute trust has set the unique goal of employing almost 40 per cent of its workforce from the most deprived areas of its patch by next year.
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CommentShould the NHS quit X?
Racism still poses a complex and contentious challenge that is not being fully addressed. Creating more representative leadership and addressing the service’s involvement with problematic social media platforms are just two of the ways the service can help tackle the problem writes Edna Boampong
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NewsNHSE encourages trusts to take ‘robust action’ against staff involved in ‘civil unrest’
NHS staff must call out discrimination “whether it affects them directly or not” and trusts must take robust action where staff are involved in discriminatory behaviour “inside or outside of work”, NHS England has told local leaders.
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NewsPritchard urges NHS leaders to demonstrate ‘British values’ in face of riots
NHS England chief Amanda Pritchard has condemned anti-immigration riots that took place over the weekend as “deplorable violence, intimidation and thuggery”.
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NewsCancer treatment ‘biased against ethnic minorities’
A type of cancer treatment used in the NHS appears to be biased against non white European patients, research has found.
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CommentAnti-racist policies are urgently needed to prevent unwarranted outcomes in care
Adebusuyi Adeyemi suggests that a new regulatory regime is required to limit healthcare systems from reproducing unjustified variation in health outcomes for different ethnicities
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NewsRegulator has ‘dysfunctionality at every level’, finds review
The Nursing and Midwifery Council has dysfunctionality “at virtually every level and across all directorates” — and instances of racism, bullying, and discrimination — according to an independent review of its culture.
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NewsMidwives call women in labour ‘Asian princesses’ amid ‘hostile’ environment fears
The NHS Race and Health Observatory has raised fundamental concerns about racism towards maternity patients after several cases have come to light in recent months, including midwives branding patients “Asian princesses”.
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NewsQuarter of minority ethnic bank staff report discrimination
Nearly one in seven NHS bank-only workers say they have been discriminated against by patients and the public in the past year, according to an NHS England survey.
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CommentEmpowering Black Communities in HIV Healthcare
Oluwakemi Agunbiade explores how the Unheard Voices project challenges the ‘hard-to-reach’ narrative, empowers Black communities, and advocates for meaningful involvement in HIV healthcare
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CommentThe police's rushed withdrawal from mental healthcare is creating serious risks
Challenges in implementing the Right Care Right Person policy reveal concerns over resource allocation, local coordination, and potential risks to vulnerable individuals, writes Sean Duggan
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CommentTackling health inequalities should be core business for trusts
A new NHS Providers’ guide for trusts provides a comprehensive framework for identifying, prioritising, and addressing health inequalities, write Christine Camacho and Rachael McKeown
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CommentI am not 'an angry black woman', but I am disheartened by the lack of diversity in NHS comms
A report’s finding that there is poor representation of minority ethnic communities in NHS communication teams speaks to a broader issue of racial inequality, and the lack of diversity in senior positions in the NHS, writes Edna Boampong