Anti-racism is more than a statement for us at the NHS Confederation. Being an anti-racist organisation means that we actively target, challenge and remove systemic barriers that enable racism, recognising this as a corporate responsibility. For us, commitment, understanding and action to eliminate racism and reduce health inequalities really matters.

• Commitment matters – because for years we have lacked concerted action to diversify the leadership needed to assist in creating anti-racist organisations.

• Understanding matters – because evidence informs the personal and organisational leadership and accountability required to eliminate racism.
• Action matters – because commitment and understanding are meaningless if we fail to act.

Commit, understand, act: our anti-racism strategy | NHS Confederation

Our Drive to Increase Diversity on the Stem Cell Register. How a partnership between the Muslim Doctors Cymru group and charity Anthony Nolan is promoting diversity in stem cell donations. See attached article to find out more.

Stem Cell Register - Diversity

The Race Equality programme aims to support boards to effectively identify and challenge structural race inequality as a core part of the board’s business. Influenced by our seminal trust leader insights report: Race 2.0 - Time for real change, the programme focuses on sharing research, evidence based interventions and lived experiences through a range of events and resources for boards. 

Race Equality - NHS Providers

In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the international reckoning on racial justice, there is a fundamental imperative for organisations to expose and combat racism and bias within the health-care workforce. Racism is a public health threat and there is an opportunity for individuals and institutions to identify and reverse racist policies and practices that lead to unequal treatment, outcomes, and experiences in health care. At present, the UK and the USA have workplaces that are increasingly diverse but are not inclusive. Here, we explore this problem in the context of these two countries and what steps need to be taken to improve inclusivity.

Workforce and workplace racism in health systems: organisations are diverse but not inclusive - The Lancet