Ethnicity

NHS England advises pharmacies to ‘risk assess’ BAME staff for susceptibility to COVID-19

NHS England has advised pharmacies to risk assess staff who may be particularly vulnerable to COVID-19, including those from a black, Asian or minority ethnic background.…

How the Black Pharmacists Collective will close the MPharm attainment gap

Black pharmacy students at the University of Manchester have created an organisation to tackle the growing gap in preregistration assessment pass rates between black students and their peers.…

RPS to publish ethnicity pay data

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society will publish its ethnicity pay data, its chief executive announced at the Society’s 2019 annual conference.…

‘No ethnicity pay issue’ claim pharmacy multiples

The UK’s four largest community pharmacy multiples currently do not collect ethnicity pay data for their pharmacist employees, with two of the high street chains telling The Pharmaceutical Journal that there was no ethnicity pay gap within their respective organisation…

Asif Sadiq: ‘We hope to put together a plan that’s truly inclusive’

Having dedicated his working life to improving equality in the workplace, Asif Sadiq hopes that the RPS’s newly launched inclusion and diversity strategy will create a true sense of belonging across the Society.…

Black, Asian and minority ethnic people receive poorer diabetes treatment, study finds

Black, Asian and minority ethnic people receive poorer diabetes treatment compared to white people, research from the University of Surrey has revealed.…

Ethnicity pay gap for UK pharmacists increases

The difference in pay between white and non-white pharmacists has widened by 0.3 percentage points over the last year, figures from The Pharmaceutical Journal’s 2019 salary and job satisfaction survey show…

Pharmacy’s ethnicity pay gap widens

As the government consults on whether to make reporting of ethnicity pay data mandatory for employers, our analyses show the extent of the ethnicity pay gap among pharmacists. …

How UK pharmacy schools can learn from New Zealand to grow culturally competent pharmacists

Work to improve the inclusivity of healthcare for MÄori people shows the importance of cultural competence in addressing differences in health outcomes, say pharmacists from New Zealand. …

Pass rate gap widens for black trainees in preregistration exam

The difference in pass rates between black African and white British preregistration trainees taking the General Pharmaceutical Council registration assessment has widened by four percentage points since 2018.…