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I'd love to see an answer to your last question, Roger.

I'm sure there are plenty of people at the DH and throughout the NHS who understand and want to do something about racial equality, but for some reason it doesn't ever seem to get national attention.

Each round of the Staff Survey highlights significant differences in the experience of White and BME staff (disabled and non-disabled staff, too, for that matter). I'd love to know more about why BME staff report fewer opportunities for career progression and more physical violence from colleagues, yet also higher levels of job satisfaction and less pressure to work if they're ill.

There's a lot more which could be discovered from existing data - for example whether some differences can be accounted for by adjusting for the over-representation of BME staff in certain job categories, but there doesn't currently seem to be the will to go looking.