Department of Health: Sir Nigel Crisp - Leadership and Race Equality in the NHS
In February 2004, Sir Nigel Crisp announced a 10-point action plan through which the NHS and Department of Health must give even greater prominence to race equality as part of the drive to improve health. Leaders both in the NHS and the Department are asked to:
- pay greater attention to meeting the service needs of people from ethnic minorities. This will help them to meet the standards both for improved services and health outcomes in the long term and to hit their short term targets
- make race an important dimension of their strategy for the next five years through more focus on helping people with chronic diseases – where morbidity is high amongst people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds - and on health inequalities – where ethnic minority communities are often disadvantaged
- target recruitment and development opportunities at people from different ethnic groups whose skills are often underused.
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