Promoting equality for ethnic minority NHS staff-what works?
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Journal Article
Abstract
For decadesresearch hasshown that discrimination, harassment,
and exclusion are pervasive experiences for staff from black
and minority ethnic (BME) backgroundsin the National Health
Service.1-6
In recognition of limited progress in achieving the
goals of the now decade old NHS Race Equality Action Plan,7
the NHS has agreed a mandatory workforce race equality
standard. The standard requires NHS organisations to collect
baseline information from April 2015 on nine indicators of
workforce equality for ethnic minority staff, including
representation on boards, and to publish annual updates on these
metrics (box). Organisations that fail to make progress on these
metrics will be in breach of the NHS standard contract, and this
will affect whether regulators judge them to be “well led.”8 9
We review the international evidence on the effectiveness of
diversity initiatives to assess how best to achieve the standard’s
intended outcomes.
and exclusion are pervasive experiences for staff from black
and minority ethnic (BME) backgroundsin the National Health
Service.1-6
In recognition of limited progress in achieving the
goals of the now decade old NHS Race Equality Action Plan,7
the NHS has agreed a mandatory workforce race equality
standard. The standard requires NHS organisations to collect
baseline information from April 2015 on nine indicators of
workforce equality for ethnic minority staff, including
representation on boards, and to publish annual updates on these
metrics (box). Organisations that fail to make progress on these
metrics will be in breach of the NHS standard contract, and this
will affect whether regulators judge them to be “well led.”8 9
We review the international evidence on the effectiveness of
diversity initiatives to assess how best to achieve the standard’s
intended outcomes.
Date Issued
2015-07-08
Date Acceptance
2015-05-12
Citation
BMJ, 2015, 351
ISSN
0959-8138
Publisher
BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP
Journal / Book Title
BMJ
Volume
351
Copyright Statement
© BMJ Publishing Group Ltd 2015
Subjects
Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Medicine, General & Internal
General & Internal Medicine
AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION
DIVERSITY
DISCRIMINATION
HEALTH
PERSPECTIVE
POLICIES
WOMEN
BIAS
RACE
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
h3297