An NHS Trust won a national diversity award when staff reported bullying and discrimination.

Over to Westminster Confidential to explain what has happened:

This weekend Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Foundation Trust won a national award for its diversity and inclusion just after a still to be published national staff survey reveals a high level of dissatisfaction about discrimination and bullying among its employees.

The trust which has one of the highest proportion of ethnic minority staff in the country is one of the Excel HPMA award winners.

[But] when asked about whether staff were discriminated by their boss, the trust comes out as worse than average for a NHS trust and similarly in regards to career progression. Also there is a particularly bad result when they were asked how patients, relatives and the public treated them. Interestingly white people – who are a minority in the trust – had a significantly higher rating for satisfaction about future career promotions than ethnic minorities employed there.

All this suggests that this award must be more of a paper exercise than the reality there. I would have expected that the trust would be rated as one of the best in some instances. But this does not appear to be case. No doubt the media department there will praise the award to the highest level, executives will congratulate themselves and the law firms will delight in the glory. But it doesn’t look as though it was really deserved.

For the full story, read: How come an NHS Trust can win a national diversity award when its ethnic minority staff are reporting bullying and discrimination? | Westminster Confidential

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