Observatory Launches New NHS Workforce Roadshows
A series of national and regional roadshows launch in Manchester this week to address the ethnicity pay and progression gap impacting the NHS workforce.
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Comment and analysis on key issues on ethnic health inequalities in health and social care.
Statement in response to announcement of a national maternity investigation aimed at 14 NHS Trusts
Responding to publication of the full Terms of Reference for the maternal investigation into 14 NHS Trusts, Professor Habib Naqvi, chief executive officer, NHS Race and Health Observatory, said:
Invitation to tender: Calculating the cost of racism
An opportunity to work with us to explore and quantify the economic costs of racism and ethnic inequity in health and healthcare in England.
Open statement on addressing racism across healthcare
Open statement from the NHS Race and Health Observatory on addressing racism across healthcare.
Statement in response to the Government announcement on DNA testing and research
Responding to today’s Government announcement on DNA testing and research, Dr Veline L’Esperance, Senior Clinical Advisor to the Observatory, said:
COVID-19 vaccinations and race equality: no trust without agency
For most of us, agency is something that, until recently, was easy to take for granted. In normal life, we make hundreds of choices every day and feel, for the most part, that decisions regarding our life and our health are ours to make. In other words, we feel free.
Windrush passenger, Alford Gardner, 95, reflects on 73rd anniversary and Covid-19
Today, 73 years after the arrival of the SS Empire Windrush from the Caribbean to the UK, 95-year-old Windrush passenger, Alford Gardner, tells the NHS Race and Health Observatory about his journey and how he has spent the past year in lockdown.
NHS Race and Health Observatory welcomes new US partnership to tackle health inequalities
Following the announcement today by the UK government, the NHS Race and Health Observatory warmly welcomes the announcement of the partnership with the US Centre for Disease Control’s Office of Minority Health and Health Equity.
Ethnicity coding in health care
Health care is becoming more digitalised, and data-driven. Precision medicine, clinical decision support systems and predictive analytics are no longer the future, but our present. Covid 19 has also accelerated the adoption of new technologies and new ways of working.
Building trust takes time. The key is starting the conversation.
Public health will not work without the public’s trust. Unfortunately, there is a loss of trust in public institutions among some in our ethnic minority communities.
The ethnicity pay gap in the NHS and Agenda for Change
With equal pay at its heart, how much has Agenda for Change helped with differences in pay across the NHS’s ethnically diverse workforce?
Race and Health Observatory host first webinar to address COVID-19 hesitancy
Leading Black and minority ethnic health experts from the NHS Race and Health Observatory addressed key concerns, facts and misinformation over COVID-19 and vaccines in a live webinar which attracted over 870 people today, 11 February.