Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024
Inquiry: NHS leadership, performance and patient safetyFound: consideration of the impact of ethnicity on the care received, examining the potential role of racism
Mentions:
1: Gulhane, Sandesh (Con - Glasgow) understand the act, or they are right and the act makes it harder to prosecute actual hate in the form of racism - Speech Link
Asked by: Kwasi Kwarteng (Conservative - Spelthorne)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has had discussions with NHS England on ensuring that (a) reviews, (b) investigations and (c) complaints processes relating to maternity services include consideration of the (i) impact of ethnicity on the care received and (ii) potential role of (A) racism and (B) discrimination.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
NHS England, along with the devolved administrations and the Crown Dependencies, funds Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries to collate ethnicity data, in relation to all perinatal and maternal deaths across the United Kingdom. They publish annual surveillance reports which provide comparators of rates of mortality for women and babies from different ethnic groups. They also publish confidential enquiries, assessing care provision along the whole care pathway, to identify areas requiring improvement.
The Maternity and Newborn Safety Investigations programme provides independent, standardised, and family focused investigations to provide learning to the health system. This includes analysis of data to identify key trends, and collaboration with system partners to escalate safety concerns.
Mentions:
1: Rupa Huq (Lab - Ealing Central and Acton) reputation from how I first remember it in the 1980s, when it was synonymous with fans behaving badly, racism - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Siobhan Baillie (Con - Stroud) She said that this point is not about racism, but she sees other people being treated differently. - Speech Link
Apr. 22 2024
Source Page: Stephen Lawrence Day: we need to recognise the drivers for disparityFound: disproportionality throughout the wider justice system.30 Given recent findings about the institutional racism
Apr. 22 2024
Source Page: Stephen Lawrence Day: we need to recognise the drivers for disparityFound: One boy spoke of racism he had experienced at college, which forced him to drop out of his course as
Apr. 22 2024
Source Page: Strategic Board Teachers Education Meeting Papers November 2023Found: Teacher Workforce Planning Advisory Group, SNCT and Anti -Racism in Education Programme.
Mentions:
1: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) gone on the radio, as a Government Minister did this morning, and accused this House of bordering on racism - Speech Link
Asked by: Geoffrey Cox (Conservative - Torridge and West Devon)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle (a) sexism, (b) racism and (c) bullying behaviour within the ambulance service; and if she will establish an independent body to review complaints made by ambulance workers.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Everyone working in the National Health Service must feel safe from any form of bullying, harassment, discrimination, or abuse, and feel confident that they can raise concerns, which will be taken seriously and acted on.
The Department welcomes the publication of the NHS England commissioned independent review into ambulance sector culture. NHS England has established a Delivery Board to deliver the review’s important recommendations. This includes actions led by the Office of the Chief Allied Health Professions at NHS England, and the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives, on stopping misogyny and improving sexual safety in the ambulance service. This programme of work will build on the work already underway through the NHS People Plan, and the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Improvement Plan