Summary
A new report by the NHS Race and Health Observatory makes robust recommendations—we must act on them, write Mohammad S Razai and colleagues in this BMJ opinion piece.
The magnitude of racial health inequalities reported in the NHS Race and Health Observatory’s recent review comes as no surprise. It highlighted the overwhelming, stark, widespread, and longstanding inequalities that people from ethnic minorities in the UK experience in access to healthcare and outcomes. The report found that this occurs “at every stage, throughout the life course, from birth to death” and is “rooted in experiences of structural, institutional, and interpersonal racism.” This evidence has been known for a long time, with the disproportionate impacts of Covid-19 on people from ethnic minorities drawing even greater attention to and wider recognition of these facts. Will evidence, however, be enough to compel those charged with the nation’s health to acknowledge and take urgent action to redress these egregious inequalities?
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