Features & Interviews

With many NHS managers working at home or moving to different roles, Claire Pullar offers her tips on how to protect your health and career during the pandemic and beyond.

Black and minority ethnic communities have borne the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic, and the impact on BME staff in the NHS had been devastating. Racism expert and member of Independent SAGE, Zubaida Haque, talks about what’s wrong and how NHS managers and leaders can put it right.

Many non-black managers have been asking how they can better support black colleagues and help tackle racism in the NHS. We crowd-sourced these ten tips from the managers who took part in our Black Lives Still Matter project.

Meet your reps: Tarlochan Boparai from Kent and Medway CCG explains how becoming an MiP rep has given him new skills and a sense of empowerment at work.

How Birmingham and Solihull united the whole health and care system around a common purpose: fighting the pandemic while keeping services running.

Black Lives Still Matter: Marie Gabriel, chair of the North East London Integrated Care System.

Black Lives Still Matter: Yvonne Richards, community care improvement adviser, NHS England & NHS Improvement

The NHS can’t afford unfair recruitment and promotion processes that discriminate against BAME people. We need a new evidence-based approach that focuses on leadership, accountability and removing bias from the system.

Black Lives Still Matter: Patricia Miller, chief executive, Dorset County Hospital Foundation Trust. Interview by Mercedes Broadbent

Black Lives Still Matter: Richard Stubbs, chief executive, Yorkshire & Humber Academic Health Science Network. Interview by Craig Ryan.