NHS organisations must “get a grip” on racism, says report

The NHS continues to fail staff who experience racism at work by perpetuating a culture of avoidance, defensiveness, or playing down incidents when concerns are raised, a study has found.1To change that culture and effectively tackle discrimination in the workplace health leaders need to be proactive by adopting a preventative approach and signalling their curiosity to staff, said study authors Roger Kline, research fellow at Middlesex University, and Joy Warmington, chief executive of the human rights charity Brap and a visiting professor at Middlesex University.Despite numerous initiatives, plans, and policies to drive out racism from the NHS over many years, racial prejudice remains embedded with little effort being made to tackle it, they found after examining recent reports, significant tribunal cases, and responses from 1327 NHS staff to a survey about their experiences of racism.Many respondents to the survey, which was shared among staff from ethnic minorities between May and…
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