A seminar was held on the 16th October to explore the understanding of race equality in the context of rural PCTs. View the outcome paper from that event. Continue...

There is much emphasis on the need for councillors to reflect the diversity of their community. Which is why Leadership and Gender in Local Government in England, a report from the Centre of Women & Democracy (CFWD), which found 30% of local councillors in England are women yet only 15.7% of leaders and 20.1% of deputies are women, has been seen as a cause for concern. Continue...

South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Trust (SECAmb) has supported the official launch of a new group to engage staff with Black, minority and ethnic (BME) backgrounds. Continue...

Black men in England are three times more likely than whites to get prostate cancer and tend to be diagnosed five years younger, researchers have found. Continue...

This report gives the final results of around 109,000 responses to the twelfth national patient choice survey, commissioned to assess the implementation of choice at PCT level. The report also contains combined survey results to date by age, sex and ethnic group. Continue...