The UK Health Secretary Steve Barclay has called on the heads of NHS bodies to review their diversity and inclusion memberships owing to “financial pressures, and wider societal concern about these issues.”
Barclay has written to major national health organisations, including NHS England, the UK Health Security Agency and the Care Quality Commission, asking them to question whether their “diversity and inclusion memberships” provided good value.
In the letter, seen by The Mail On Sunday, Barclay wrote: “In these times of financial pressures, and wider societal concern about these issues, I would ask that you, as a member of the wider health family, now review whether your organisation is getting value for money from your diversity and inclusion memberships and, if not, consider any steps that you could take to address that, such as following the department’s example and allowing any association/subscriptions that you have to lapse or be cancelled.”…