An independent appraisal of the NHS Workforce Race Equality Standard

An independent appraisal of the NHS Workforce Race Equality Standard The NHS seeks to monitor and control diversity and equality through a programme known as the Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) – it is based on a series of statistical indicators pertaining to outcomes between white and non-white minority groups. However this paper argues that closer inspection of those indicators reveals ‘they do not withstand methodological scrutiny’. Civitas