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Creating an Anti-Racism Environment

Nurses and midwives

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Nurses and midwives are at the forefront of healthcare. They come from a broad range of backgrounds, and work with patients with complex needs and histories.

The resources on this page are suitable for nurses and midwives at any stage of their career and in any setting, from student nurses on placements and General Practice (GP) nurse practitioners, through to community and bereavement midwives.

Some of the resources created for the Dare to CARE project feature accounts of racism experienced by individuals. These scenarios are anonymised, but have been created using real stories taken from a range of sources.

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Training resource: Nurse

In this 3-5 minute training resource, you'll join student nurse Afua as she deals with racism experienced during her nursing placement and see how staff at her University and the placement setting dealt with it.

Policies and statements

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Research and reports

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  •  - NHS Race & Health Observatory 
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  •  - FIVEXMORE
  •  - Birthrights
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  • (.PDF) - Birmingham City University
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  • - NHS Race & Health Observatory (summary and full PDF report available on the page).
  • - Selected papers.
  • - NHS England

Support and Advocacy Groups

  •  - This group is committed to changing maternal health outcomes for Black women in the UK.
  • - This charity supports refugees who wish to settle in the UK. In particular their  is a helpful resource for understanding the lived experiences of those seeking asylum in the UK.
  • - An independent think tank focusing on race equality in the UK.
  • - This group is working to reduce and eliminate racism in healthcare by supporting staff and lobbying governments and employers.
  • - Founded by medical student Malone Mukwende, this platform aims to educate clinical staff on the presentation of various conditions on black and brown skin. It includes free digital copies of Mukwende's book "", along with online resources.

News and blogs

  • - BBC News
  • - Nursing Notes.
  • - Research published in The Lancet and discussed in this article from charity Tommy's shows that Black women have a higher risk of miscarriage, which itself carries higher risks of depression and physical health problems in later life.
  •  - Royal College of Midwives.
  • - Royal College of Nursing magazine.
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  • - Royal College of Nursing.
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  • - The Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare.
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  • (Youtube video) - Professor Calvin Moorley at London South Bank University.
  • - The Guardian
  • - Equality 4 Black Nurses
  • - Nursing Times
  • - King's College London News Centre
  • - Roger Kline

General resources

"I want to feel more able and confident to be anti-racist, and be more confident to challenge racism. The thing that often stops people is the potential of upsetting people by challenging their behaviour, we need to be braver than that."
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Blog: An inclusive and decolonised Health and Social Care curriculum

In this blog post Akudo Amadiegwu and Professor Winifred Eboh discuss how decolonising the curriculum for healthcare and social care can improve health and wellbeing for patients and service users in marginalised communities.

Read the blog