NHS Digital pledges to increase staff diversity by 2025
NHS Digital employs around 3,500 people across England. It is aiming for 19% of its staff to be black, Asian or from ethnic minority groups by 2025.
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Shuri Network issues call to action at Virtual Summer School 2021
As it celebrates its second birthday, the Shuri Network has issued a call of action to its allies to help over the next 12 months.
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Celebrating female digital health leaders on International Women’s Day
This International Women’s Day, Digital Health News spoke to women about their experience working in health technology and advice they have for other women.
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Shuri Network named Network of the Year at 2020 TechWomen100 awards
Launched at Digital Health Summer School in July 2019 the Shuri Network is the first of its kind for women of colour in digital health roles.
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Covid-19: Recording of ethnicity data to be mandatory on death certificates
The recording of ethnicity data on death certificates in England is set to become mandatory in a bid to tackle health disparities of Covid-19. The government’s quarterly report on progress to address Covid-19 health inequalities addresses a number of ways data can be used to better understand why patients from minority ethnic backgrounds are at […]
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Diversity and inclusion must be ‘at the core’ of NHSX and digital leadership
Speaking at Connect 2020 Sonia Patel said diversity had to be at the core of the service offered to patients in order to reduce health inequalities.
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Newham trial of contact-tracing app a ‘step in the right direction’
Shuri Network co-founder, Dr Shera Chok, said it was “not clear” why a trial of the app in an ethnically diverse area was not done from the start.
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UKRI offers £5m for research into Covid-19 impact on BAME people
The funding is for ideas that address the vulnerability of BAME groups to Covid-19, or emerging social economic and cultural impacts of the pandemic.
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Shuri Network co-founder talks about unimaginable response
One of the founders of the Shuri Network has said the organisation has taken off in a way she “couldn’t ever have imagined”.
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Digital NHS leader talks Covid-19 response and diversity
The associate director of digital transformation at The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS FT has said the Covid-19 pandemic has “brought about the need for change”.
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