Ethnicity

Well Pharmacy to risk assess all staff for COVID-19 from next week

Well Pharmacy will risk assess all staff for their susceptibility to COVID-19 from next week, the multiple has said.…

BAME patients less likely to take up community pharmacy services in North West London

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the interplay between ethnicity and poor health outcomes has rightly come under scrutiny. A high proportion of those who have lost their lives to COVID-19 were from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) groups. Pharmacy rarely features in investigations into thi…

It should not have taken another pandemic to highlight BAME health inequalities

The high proportion of people from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups dying from COVID-19 has brought health inequalities between ethnic groups to the fore, but this should have been looked into long before the pandemic began.…

Pharmacy leaders concerned over lack of widespread COVID-19 risk assessment for BAME staff

Pharmacy leaders concerned over lack of widespread risk assessment for BAME staff Source: Mclean Reseach has shown that people of a black, Asian or minority ethnic background are more susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection than those who are not Pha…

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.…