NHS takes action to tackle race inequality across the workforce.

The NHS Equality and Diversity Council announced on July 31 2014 that it had agreed action to ensure employees from black and ethnic minority (BME) backgrounds have equal access to career opportunities and receive fair treatment in the workplace.

The move follows recent reports which have highlighted disparities in the number of BME people in senior leadership positions across the NHS, as well as lower levels of wellbeing amongst the BME population.

The Council pledged its commitment, subject to consultation with the NHS, to implement two measures to improve equality across the NHS, which would start in April 2015.

The first is a Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) that would, for the first time, require organisations employing almost all of the 1.4 million NHS workforce to demonstrate progress against a number of indicators of workforce equality, including a specific indicator to address the low levels of BME Board representation

NHS Sheffield Workforce Race Equality Standard 2020

NHS Sheffield Workforce Race Equality Standard 2016

NHS Sheffield Workforce Race Equality Standard 2015

WRES Guidance for Clinical Commissioning Group

WRES July 2015 Update

WRES Frequently asked questions

Further reading http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/gov/equality-hub/equality-standard/