{"id":16415,"date":"2018-09-28T15:23:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T14:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=16415"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:58:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:58:11","slug":"black-nhs-pay-gap-baem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=16415","title":{"rendered":"NHS pay gap shock"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A shocking pay gap between black and white NHS staff \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in some cases one of up to nearly \u00c2\u014110,000 — has been revealed by new research.<\/p>\n

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The pay gap problem is even further compounded for women health workers who are black.<\/p>\n

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The research exercise by NHS Digital<\/a>, which gathers statistics for and about the health service, found that black female doctors earn \u00c2\u01419,612 a year less and black male doctors earn \u00c2\u01419,492 a year less than their white counterparts.<\/p>\n

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Black female nurses and midwives earn \u00c2\u01412,700 less than their white colleagues, while black male nurses and midwives earn \u00c2\u01411872 less.<\/p>\n

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NHS workers who identify themselves as black, African, Caribbean or black British in a wide range of roles across the health service also face substantial pay gaps. Black men working in all jobs across the health service earn nearly \u00c2\u01416,000 less than white men across the NHS. Black female NHS workers across the health service face an average pay gap of nearly \u00c2\u01412,000.<\/p>\n

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NHS Digital\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s research looked at pay data for 750,000 staff in the NHS and broke down pay gaps specifically for doctors, nurses and midwives.<\/p>\n

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Unite lead professional officer Obi Amadi said the latest pay gap revelations add to the mountain of evidence showing BAEM workers in NHS \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and across society in general \u00e2\u20ac\u201c face rampant discrimination.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe pay gap is yet another burden that BAEM health workers must carry with them \u00e2\u20ac\u201c this is in addition to the fact that they are massively underrepresented in leadership positions in the NHS, they are less likely to be promoted, and they are more likely to be disciplined than their white peers,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 she said.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIn 2018, the yawning racial pay gap in the NHS \u00e2\u20ac\u201c which is the largest BAEM employer in the UK \u00e2\u20ac\u201c should not be this outrageously large and clear. At a time when staff across the under-resourced NHS are under massive pressure, that BAEM workers continue to work in the health service even with the added discrimination they face shows their tremendous dedication to their jobs. Now it is time for the NHS to take serious action to address this issue for the good of their hard-working staff as well as patients.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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Unite national officer for health Colenzo Jarrett-Thorpe agreed.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnfortunately, the findings of this report come as no surprise,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he said.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe want all NHS Trusts in England to address the issues of unconscious and conscious bias in their policies, procedures and practices which often mean that BAEM workers in the NHS do not receive the same opportunities for training and development, are not taking places in leadership roles and are experiencing higher levels of harassment and disciplinary action against them compared to white colleagues.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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Jarrett-Thorpe highlighted the Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES)<\/a> which has now been in place for three years.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt shines a real light on what NHS Trusts do to reduce these gaps and monitors action plans trusts have set,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bBut we must see progress to ensure that workers feel valued so they can provide the highest standards of patient care.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite believes that the NHS can do better and that Britain can do better in eliminating racial and gender discrimination for NHS workers especially since without these workers, our NHS would grind to halt.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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Amadi said that an integral party of fighting racial and gender pay gaps, both in the health service and other sectors, is being part of a union.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite is dedicated to fighting pay and workplace discrimination in all its forms \u00e2\u20ac\u201c our\u00c2\u00a0 innovative Work, Voice Pay strategy<\/a> is just one example of how we tackle pay discrimination head-on,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A shocking pay gap between black and white NHS staff \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in some cases one of up to nearly \u00c2\u014110,000 — has been revealed by new research.   The pay gap problem is even further compounded for women health workers who are black.   The research exercise by NHS Digital, which gathers statistics for and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1010,353,501],"wps_subtitle":"Black doctors in the NHS earn nearly \u00c2\u014110k less than their white peers","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25825,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16415\/revisions\/25825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}