antiracistNHS

  Actions speak louder than words – but not nearly as often           (Mark Twain) The publication of a new report by Roger Kline, Too Hot to Handle , is always something to anticipate. It is ten years since the publication of The Snowy White Peaks of the NHS which was pivotal in giving substance in data to the lived experience of Black and minority ethnic staff in the NHS – it went from being a topic which was either dismissed or not discussed at all, to one which could not be denied in the face of the nation-wide and institutionalised inequity that was shown in that data. Roger has co-authored many other reports - on just culture in organisations, on inequality in rates of referral of minoritised staff into fitness to practice processes , and most recently on summary of the research base on fair recruitment and talent management . Taken together, this represents a canon that should see inequity a thing of the past in the NHS. Regrettably, serial iterations of workforce data show l