The diversity of the NHS workforce is increasing, with trained healthcare professionals travelling from all over the world to support the UK. This means that it’s more vital than ever to address issues around equality and inclusion.
This time, we’re talking about some of the challenges that internationally educated professionals can face when they join the NHS workforce. How can senior leaders create equitable organisations and teams? What are microaggressions, and why do they matter? And what can we all do to ensure an equal and inclusive work environment?
Our host, Katy McDonald, is a Fellow for International Retention in NHS England North East and Yorkshire Region, and she’s joined by 2 expert guests to chat equality, diversity, and inclusion.
- Alicia Messiah, an Equality Lead Nurse at Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the Chief Nursing Officer’s Black And Minority Ethnic Strategic Advisory Group fellow for the South West Region
- And Brian Chiyesu, the Assistant Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust and West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts Dermatology Elective Recovery Lead
For more information about #StayAndThrive visit our futures page at: future.nhs.uk/NEYInternationalRetention
We’d love to keep the conversation going, so please get in touch with questions, comments, stories of your experiences or if have any suggestions about how we can make sure people Stay and Thrive. You can reach us on X, previously known as Twitter, at @stayandthrive, or you can use #stayandthrive. Or, by email at england.stayandthriveir@nhs.net
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