Ethnicity

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?…

‘Worrying’ proportion of minority ethnic pharmacists suspended or struck off GPhC register

The chair of the General Pharmaceutical Council has admitted he has concerns over the number of black, Asian and minority ethnic pharmacists who are suspended or removed from the register, compared with white pharmacists.…

Olutayo Arikawe: BAME representation, health inequalities and overcoming shyness

A minute in the company of the public health services advocate.…

Is ethnicity an issue for pharmacy students?

Kweku Bimpong, fourth year pharmacy student and publications officer for the British Pharmaceutical Students’ Association, gives his view on how ethnicity impacts students from minority ethnic backgrounds. …