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No more excuses: tackling inequalities in health and care professional regulation

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  • Why are black women four times more likely than white women to die in childbirth in the UK?
  • Why have four of the most recent major patient safety scandals primarily affected women?
  • Why are black and ethnic minoritised doctors overrepresented in all stages of the fitness to practise process?

These are just some of the stark statistics taken from the first chapter of our report Safer care for all where we look at the impact of inequalities on patients, service users and registrants, and on public confidence more widely. As part of this chapter, we also taker a closer look at what professional regulation (and beyond) can do to tackle inequalities affecting registrants and patients and service users.

Find out more

What would you like to read? We have several versions available. You can download:

There is also a Welsh translation available of front part of the report, including The essentials and the executive summary. You can download it here. 

Please get in touch (via the email address below) with us if you would like a Word version of the full report.

Read our blogs

Read guest blogs on the main themes covered in Safer care for all:

  • Race inequality in health and care. Who’s responsible?

    by Sam Rodger, Assistant Director, Policy and Strategy, NHS Race and Health Observatory | Jan 25, 2023
    In the latest in our series of guest blogs to discuss issues raised in our report Safer care for all, Sam Rodger from the NHS Race and Health Observatory discusses how making race equity everybody's job risks it being nobody's job, but we can all have a shared ambition to create a culture of equity
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  • A vision for an anti-racist NHS

    by Indranil Chakravorty, Chair of the Bapio Institute for Health Research | Jan 17, 2023
    As part of our series of guest blogs to look in more detail at the themes highlighted in our report Safer care for, Indranil Chakravorty, Chair of the Bapio Institute for Health Research writes about their vision for an anti-racist NHS
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  • Cultural Safety – seeking to turn the tide of health inequities in Aotearoa New Zealand

    by Joan Simeon, Kiri Rikihana, Richard Tankersley, Jane Dancer, at The Medical Council of New Zealand | Jan 06, 2023
    In our latest blog, Joan Simeon, Kiri Rikihana, Richard Tankersley, Jane Dancer at The Medical Council of New Zealand, discusses the role of healthcare practitioners, and regulators in addressing health inequities in Aotearoa, New Zealand, and how the practice of cultural safety can improve patient outcomes.
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  • Who isn't complaining? Learning from those who do not complain

    by Jacob Lant, Head of Policy, Public Affairs, Research and Insight, Healthwatch England | Dec 16, 2022
    In this blog, Jacob Lant, Head of Policy, Public Affairs, Research and Insight at Healthwatch England, explains how the healthcare system can use complaint processes to address inequalities in healthcare and how this can help us understand the demographic of those who are not complaining to learn about those who are receiving poorer outcomes.
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Get in touch

Contact us if you would like to join the discussion about how we can work together to make health and social care safer for all. You can get in touch by emailing engagement@professionalstandards.org.uk