All Equality and diversity articles – Page 8
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CommentIncidents of racial prejudice should be treated as seriously as drug errors
To normalise EDI and make it everyone’s responsibility will involve enabling reporting of EDI incidents, investigating it, taking action, and learning from it, writes Dr Nadeem Moghal
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Race, inequalities and NHS ConfedExpo
Race and racism in NHS leadership and workforce, and health inequalities, are the subject of this week’s HSJ Health Check podcast.
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NewsDitch recruiters who don’t deliver diverse candidates, says NHSE director
An NHS England leadership chief has criticised the lack of diversity among the top ranks of the country’s new integrated care systems, adding the low level of ethnic minority representation ‘really isn’t good enough’.
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NewsOver half of ethnic minority NHS leaders consider quitting due to racism
Just over half of senior ethnic minority leaders have considered leaving the NHS due to experiencing workplace racism, a survey shared with HSJ suggests.
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LeaderThe Messenger review is a con
“NHS to face biggest shake-up of leadership in decades”, declared the Financial Times – the paper with perhaps the most stringent editorial standards in the world – of Wednesday’s Messenger review. The Daily Telegraph also hailed it as “a landmark report”, while the BBC described how health and social care ...
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NewsMessenger at odds with Javid over NHS diversity jobs
Sajid Javid’s claim that the number of NHS roles dedicated to promoting equality and diversity should be cut is incorrect and not what the government-commissioned review into NHS management recommended, according to its author.
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NewsThree more directors depart top team at trust with ‘significant bullying problem’
One of the country’s most high-profile mental health trusts has lost more members of its top team, with two senior leaders leaving just weeks after the departures of its chair and chief executive were announced.
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NewsI faced a ‘double whammy’ of discrimination, says trust CEO
The joint CEO of two trusts felt she needed to prove herself when vying for top-level roles – while others landed jobs based on their potential alone.
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CommentHow patients came to share power in the NHS
David Gilbert imagines a world in which those with lived experience of healthcare are given a central role in the planning of services and policy at local and national level.
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NewsDisabled staff nearly twice as likely to face performance management
Disabled NHS staff are nearly twice as likely to face formal questions over their ability to do their job than their non-disabled colleagues, an NHS England report has revealed.
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HSJ LocalBlowing whistle on trust CEO ‘hardest thing I’ve had to do’, says his successor
A trust chief who blew the whistle on her predecessor’s ‘aggressive’ behaviour and lack of interest in patient safety says it was the hardest thing she has had to do in her career.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: The ICS rebellion and exec diversity declines
NHS England has asked systems to ensure their financial plans break even this year – but this is easier said than done when many face deficits of over £100m.
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NewsWhite men form the minority of HSJ’s Top Chief Executives
A chief executive with less than four years’ experience has been selected as the number one CEO in HSJ’s eighth annual ranking of the service’s top provider trust chiefs
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NewsRevealed: The ethnically diverse trusts with all-white leadership
Analysis of new data has identified multiple trusts which appear to have no executives or very senior managers from a minority ethnic background, despite their workforces being relatively diverse.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Why the capital's NHS staff are, relatively, happy
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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HSJ Local‘Big personalities’ accused of bullying thought to be ‘bullet proof’, finds review
Doctors at an acute trust believe their clinical leaders have failed to tackle the ‘big personalities’ accused of being aggressive bullies, a review has found.
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HSJ LocalFormer hospital chief hired to lead ICS
A former hospital trust chief is set to be appointed chair of one of the largest integrated care boards.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Why a medic may get the biggest job in hospital-land
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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CommentNHS’ failure to address racial inequality in access to vaccines is shocking
Unless NHSE learns from how it failed immunocompromised people from ethnic minority communities last autumn, we are likely to see the same racial disparity in access to any future vaccine doses, writes Gemma Peters
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HSJ LocalTrust reviewing ‘speak English’ rule after social media criticism, says NHSE
An NHS England director says a London trust will ‘review’ its values after coming under fire for asking staff to communicate ‘only in English’ when around others.