Sam Rodger
Sam Rodger, assistant director for policy and strategy at the NHS Race and Health Observatory
HSJ PartnersFostering co-production and tackling racism will build an NHS fit for all
The healthcare system’s current participation and co-production practice with diverse and marginalised communities remains, at best, extremely variable. At its worst, it can be actively harmful in its exclusion of some of the most marginalised voices in society.
HSJ PartnersThe first step in tackling racial inequity is listening to the people who experience it
Racial inequity affects the whole of society, and tackling it means listening to the voices of as many people as possible, write Habib Naqvi, chief executive of NHS Race and Health Observatory and Sam Rodger, assistant director policy and strategy at NHS Race and Health Observatory
HSJ PartnersWhy terminology matters
If we start with the wrong language, we will end up with the wrong solutions, write Sam Rodger and Habib Naqvi