Health equity in NHS maternity services

CQC Connect

Chris Dzikiti, Interim Chief Inspector of Healthcare, explores what our national inspection programme found in relation to healthcare inequalities, focusing on issues relating to race and ethnicity. He is joined by guests Paulette Lewis MBE, midwife, non-executive director, and President of the Caribbean Nurses and Midwives Association (UK), Benash Nazmeen, Assistant Professor of Midwifery, CQC specialist advisor, and Researcher and Director and Co-Founder of the Association of South Asian Midwives, and Nandi Simpson, Director: Implementation at the NHS Race and Health Observatory. Together, they discuss actions we can all take to creating a safe, inclusive workplace; the importance of capturing ethnicity data; and how we can facilitate positive change. They share examples of what they've seen working well, which we hope everyone can learn from, irrespective of your specialism or service.