Promoting equality for ethnic minority NHS staff--what works?

Naomi Priest; Aneez Esmail; Roger Kline; Mala Rao; Yvonne Coghill; David R Williams

doi:10.1136/bmj.h3297

Promoting equality for ethnic minority NHS staff--what works?

BMJ. 2015 Jul 8:351:h3297. doi: 10.1136/bmj.h3297.

Authors

Naomi Priest¹, Aneez Esmail², Roger Kline³, Mala Rao⁴, Yvonne Coghill⁵, David R Williams⁶

Affiliations

¹ Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, Dental and Health Services, University of Melbourne, Australia.
² Institute of Population Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
³ Middlesex University Business School, London, UK.
⁴ Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College, London, UK.
⁵ NHS England, London, UK.
⁶ Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Harvard, USA Department of African and African American Studies and of Sociology, Harvard University, USA Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, South Africa dwilliam@hsph.harvard.edu.

Abstract

NHS organisations are now being judged on indicators of ethnic diversity. Naomi Priest and colleagues look at the international evidence on how they should tackle discrimination

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Attitude of Health Personnel*
Career Mobility
Cultural Diversity
Ethnicity* / psychology
Ethnicity* / statistics & numerical data
Foreign Professional Personnel / psychology
Foreign Professional Personnel / statistics & numerical data*
Health Personnel* / psychology
Health Personnel* / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Interprofessional Relations
Personnel Selection
Prejudice / psychology
Prejudice / statistics & numerical data*
Staff Development / organization & administration*
State Medicine
United Kingdom

Grants and funding

P50 CA 148596/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States