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Accelerating change with anti-racist approaches in the NHS

Join the BME Leadership Network for its annual Black History Month celebration at the Royal College of Nursing with Professor Stephani Hatch.
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General information

Time
23 October 2024 18:30 - 21:00 GMT
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Open to all
Cost
£25.00 plus VAT
Event location
London, W1G

Speakers

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    Professor Stephani Hatch
    Professor of Sociology and Epidemiology, Vice Dean for Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, King's College London
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As part of our activities for Black History Month during October 2024, our BME Leadership Network is hosting a face-to-face celebration for anyone working in the NHS. 

Taking place on Wednesday 23 October 2024 at the Royal College of Nursing in central London, our guest speaker Professor Stephani Hatch, will share insights on Accelerating change with anti-racist approaches in the NHS. 

Drawing on her extensive academic experience, Professor Hatch will highlight some of the lessons learned and share evidence-based actionable insights to help leaders dismantle processes that are perpetuating racism and tackle resistance to change within healthcare.

In line with the national Black History Month theme of ‘reclaiming narratives’, Professor Hatch will reflect on her personal experience as an anti-racism activist in the UK and USA, celebrating the unacknowledged successes of the anti-racism struggle and highlight the importance of inclusion, solidarity and sustainability. 

Professor Hatch will also explain some of the latest evidence on how staff experience of racial discrimination and harassment contributes to the growing health inequalities experienced in racialised communities, preventing the NHS delivering its core mission.

Why attend

  • Access evidence-based approaches, data and insights to bring rigour and innovation to the development of your organisation’s anti-racism and equalities programmes. 
  • Network with some of the leading anti-racism campaigners and organisers from inside the NHS and the wider community. 
  • Celebrate Black History Month and our continued solidarity in overcoming the expressions of hate we have seen in recent times.

Cost and bookings

The cost is £25 per person plus VAT and includes a drinks reception with canapes.

This event is open to anyone working in the NHS. To secure your place please register as soon as possible; this will help us manage capacity.

  • Professor Stephani Hatch is the vice dean for culture, diversity and inclusion and professor of sociology and epidemiology leading the Health Inequalities Research Group at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London. 

    Professor Hatch works across sectors to deliver interdisciplinary health inequalities research and action with an emphasis on race at the intersection of other social identities, integrating collaborative approaches to knowledge production, dissemination, action and outreach in training and research through the Health Inequalities Research Network (HERON), since 2010.  

    She leads the Wellcome and ESRC funded Tackling Inequalities and Discrimination Experiences in Health Services (TIDES) study and co-leads the Health and Social Equity Collective and the Marginalised Communities programme within the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health. 

    Professor Hatch holds national and international advisory roles including: member of the MQ Mental Health Sciences Council; the NHS Race and Health Observatory Board (and co-chair of the RHO Academic Reference Group); the NHS England and Improvement Advancing Mental Health Equalities Taskforce (chair, Mental Health Equalities Data Quality and Research Subgroup); and advisor for the NHSE Anti-Racism Project Engagement and Oversight group with the deputy chief nursing officer for England, Nursing and Midwifery Council and NHS Confederation. 

  • The network is open to all NHS leaders from BME backgrounds. We recognise that there are great NHS BME leaders operating in many roles and levels, not just as senior managers, and our network seeks to support them all.

    We also welcome allies to join and support the network.

    Join our movement that supports increased BME leadership within the NHS, head to our membership page and complete our form.

  • Sponsorship opportunities are available for this event. 

    If you would like to find out how you can get involved, please email ross.edwards@nhsconfed.org

  • If you have any queries please contact BLN@nhsconfed.org. 

    Follow the network on social media @NHSC_BMELeaders and on LinkedIn BME Leadership Network.

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