This report was published in 2020. The NHS confederation commissioned this work. It was a follow up to an earlier report that was published in 2015. This had recommended that NHS Boards should be balanced by 2020.
This report outlines what can be achieved when boards set clear goals for their diversity. We feel that this is a very important and relevant document for the UK Dental Boards. We strongly support the report and its recommendations.
Their main recommendations were:
- Diversity data on the boards should be monitored and made accessible as a driver for reform.
- A scheme similar to Athena Swan should be introduced across NHS organisation.
- Diversity must become a core business for all NHS boards.
- Chairs should have explicit objectives, relevant to their organisation to ensure board diversity.
- They should challenge leadership stereotypes and advocate new leadership styles: chairs and other board members should explicitly challenge assumptions that stereotype leadership and its characteristics as masculine, or white, advocating more inclusive, compassionate, and collaborative styles.
You can find the full report here.
