Ethnicity

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.…

Representative body championing black pharmacists in the NHS launches

An organisation has been set up to promote equality for pharmacists who identify as black.…

GPhC to spend up to £100k on recruiting new council members in March 2020

The General Pharmaceutical Council will spend up to £100,000 on increasing the diversity of candidates to take up its council positions from 2020.…

Why the newly appointed GPhC board left me with more questions than answers

Elsy Gomez Campos questions the lack of black representation on the GPhC board.…

Looking at the ‘disproportionate’ number of fitness-to-practise cases between ethnic groups

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How pharmacy schools can better represent minority ethnic students

Pharmacy student Somto Madueke highlights how pharmacy schools can tackle ethnic disparities and support minority ethnic students to succeed.…

Transparency required to prove fitness-to-practise process is non-discriminatory

The pharmacy regulator must be more transparent about how it conducts fitness-to-practise investigations if trust in its ability to do a fair job is to be maintained.…

Five ways pharmacy can close the ethnicity pay gap

After figures suggest a 16% difference in pay between white and minority ethnic pharmacists, what can be done to reduce this inequality?…