The NMC, Care Quality Commission and General Medical Council are among the health and social care regulators that have committed and signed up to shared anti-racism principles.
The aim of the nine new principles is to help tackle longstanding racism experienced by health and social care staff. The nine headline commitments of Advancing workforce race equity in health and social care: shared principles across regulators, are:
- Naming racism
- Valuing lived experience
- Showing leadership
- Collaborative working
- Data and insight development
- Empowering approaches
- Using our powers effectively
- Influencing progress together
- Transparency and accountability
These agreed principles build on the independent NHS Race and Health Observatory’s (NHSRHO) seven principles of anti-racism, and commitments made following a roundtable held last year.
The key insights from that roundtable have also been published in a separate NHSRHO report. Participants cited the need to raise the profile of regulators when addressing all forms of racism and discrimination, including Islamophobia and antisemitism.
Chief executive of the NHSRHO, Professor Habib Naqvi, welcomed the development. ‘This announcement marks a landmark step towards regulating for workforce race equality across our healthcare system,’ he said. ‘True equality requires more than words, it requires intentional action.
‘We look forward to working with the regulatory bodies as they progress on this journey.’
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