Our Priorities
Over our first three years, we will work across five core workstreams. These areas were identified through extensive stakeholder engagement and, though they represent our initial areas of focus, we recognise that they do not represent the full range of ethnic and racial inequality in healthcare. We have ensured that our strategy allows us to remain flexible and responsive to emerging needs, and we are committed to speaking to experts and listening to our stakeholders throughout this time.
Over the next two years, we will work across six core workstreams. These areas were identified through extensive stakeholder engagement and, though they represent our initial areas of focus, we recognise that they do not represent the full range of ethnic and racial inequality in healthcare. We have ensured that our strategy allows us to remain flexible and responsive to emerging needs, and we are committed to speaking to experts and listening to our stakeholders throughout this time.
- Embed community participation in the design and delivery of healthcare services by building and maintaining trust– paving the way for an NHS that is responsive to the genuine needs of diverse communities.
- Empower Black, Asian, and minority ethnic members of the healthcare workforce by tackling disparities – ensuring equitable experience for more than a quarter of the workforce and improving the quality of education.
- Advocate for better quality ethnicity data across healthcare and greater representation in research and evidence – ensuring that decisions about healthcare are based on truly accurate and equitable evidence.
- Promote the effective spread of technology and innovation to reduce inequity and eliminate bias –ensuring advances in areas such as sickle cell and genomics are mobilised to serve ethnic minority people across their lifespan.
- Address structural disparities in maternal and neonatal mortality for Black, Asian, and minority ethnic women and babies –preventing avoidable deaths by tackling racism at all levels of maternal and neonatal care.
- Support equitable reform to mental health legislation, practice, and culture –ensuring that mental health services are serving ethnic minority communities, and that people are entering the system before they are in crisis.
