Study finds fewer woman and BME people in key jobs at NHS trusts, despite initiatives to improve representationFewer women and people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds are being given key roles running NHS trusts, prompting claims that the health service is going backwards on diversity and inclusion. The proportion of chairs and non-executive directors of NHS trusts in England who are from an ethnic minority has almost halved from 15% in 2010 to just 8%, research shows. The declining number of people with a BME background in key positions is a setback for the NHS England chief executive, Simon Stevens. He has made improving BME representation a key priority during his five years in charge and warned of the dangers of NHS trusts failing to better reflect their local communities. NHS England highlighted that growing numbers of trusts have at least two BME board members.

Source: The Guardian June 06, 2019 22:52 UTC