Evidence on inequality can no longer be ignored
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Evidence on inequality can no longer be ignored

Yvonne Coghill @yvonnecoghill1 Director of the Workforce Race Equality Standard implementation programme, NHS England

The Workforce Race Equality Standard has collected the data on BME staff. Now its focus is on implementing change

Black History Month 2017 coincides with the anniversary of my 40th year in the NHS. When I started my nurse training at Central Middlesex Hospital (CMH) in 1977, the senior lecturer in the school of nursing was Mr Adigun, a proud Nigerian, and there were also a lot of people from the Caribbean working at the hospital.

Nursing Standard. 32, 6, 27-27. doi: 10.7748/ns.32.6.27.s25

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