New NHS Taskforce to Manage Diversity Shortcoming

The new group is anticipated to submit its findings later this year with the goal of developing workable suggestions for increasing diversity in the NHS communications staff.

One of the main recommendations from the first report on the condition of NHS communications, which was published in March of this year, was to establish the taskforce. The “overwhelming majority” of practitioners are White, and only 4.6% are members of an ethnic minority, according to the report, which warns that the profession is not representative of the population it serves.

It was discovered that nearly two thirds (61%) of senior NHS communicators feel their communications staff is not “representative of the local communities they serve”.

Edna Boampong, a former director of communications and engagement at the Shropshire, Telford, and Wrekin Integrated Care Board, is in charge of the incoming taskforce. As the head of the diverse and inclusive communications program, she entered the NHS Confederation on a temporary basis.