NHS to improve opportunities for black and minority ethnic staff Workforce race equality standard in response to evidence that BME staff under-represented in NHS leadership and over-represented in disciplinary hearings
Whereas 17% of all NHS staff identify as non-white, only 8% on higher grades do so. The proportion is lower still in very senior management and at board level. Around 20% of NHS nurses but only 3% of nursing directors are from black or minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds.
Last year my company, Public World, published Discrimination by appointment, which drew upon data from 30 NHS trusts showing that, in all but one of them, over a 12-month period the percentage of BME appointments was lower than the percentage shortlisted, which in turn was lower than the percentage of BME applicants. Continue reading... The Guardian
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