Interviews: Asking the wrong questions by Roger Kline

The NHS is awash with Action Plans to create more diverse recruitment and career progression and melt the snowy white peaks of the NHS which still symbolise the failure of the NHS to tackle race discrimination. Post Gorge Floyd, such efforts increased but I suggest progress will be glacial unless employers (and unions) pay more […]

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Workforce race discrimination adversely impacts patient care too by Roger Kline

There is, finally, a growing awareness of the impact of race discrimination on Black and Minority Ethnic patients. Not so well known is the impact of workforce race discrimination on patient care and safety. For leaders determined to improve the quality and safety of patient care, tackling workplace race discrimination is not an optional extra. We […]

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In tackling health inequalities, we must be patient centric and system focused by Aideen Dunne

As a fitness instructor in a gym in Ireland I was often frustrated at the lack of progress many of my clients achieved, despite giving them the skills, knowledge and equipment they needed to achieve their goals. Now as a Public Health Registrar, I know that the barriers to their success were not simply a […]

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Medicine must choose its leaders fairly by Shannon Ruzycki

The lack of diversity among medical leadership gap is well-described. Men, white physicians, and white men physicians are overrepresented in leadership, academic, and decision-making roles relative to their proportion in medicine. This is best highlighted in specialties that are predominantly women, like pediatrics and obstetrics, where most of leaders are still men. This gap is […]

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Women Speakers in Healthcare: Still Speaking Up for Balanced Gender Representation by Rose Penfold

Who are Women Speakers in Healthcare? Women Speakers in Healthcare (WSH) is a grassroots database organisation, co-founded by five NHS women in 2019. We were brought together by a shared frustration that women remain underrepresented on panels and as speakers at healthcare conferences and events, despite comprising the majority of the health and social care […]

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