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Photo showing contents of box available too borrow from GLADE:- TRAILBLAZING NURSE: FROM GUYANA TO SOMERSET

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TRAILBLAZING NURSE: GUYANA TO SOMERSET - Heritage Box available to borrow from GLADE

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TRAILBLAZING NURSE: GUYANA TO SOMERSET - Heritage Box available to borrow from GLADE

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Heart of the Nation: Migration and the making of the NHS (October 2020) from Migration Museum

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Heart of the Nation: Migration and the making of the NHS (October 2020) from Migration Museum

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https://youtu.be/vLPd6XNEKkA

"They know us. They take care of us, often they are the first and the last people we see. And yet often we know very little about them. Who is the doctor behind the face mask? Who are the people behind the uniform? Right from the beginning people have come from all over the world to work in the NHS. They have made its vision come true."

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To enquire about borrowing this box, call or text 07546 200 332 or email Lynn@glade.org

Online enquiry form at: https://forms.gle/uz1aRnW1PAmnnLLZ9

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Trailblazing Nurse; documentary film-showing with display and discussion

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Trailblazing Nurse; documentary film-showing with display and discussion

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Made possible with Heritage Fund, with thanks to Lottery Players.

Enquiries to Lynn@glade.org or call/ message 07546 200 332

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Antiques Roadshow: Windrush generation nurses (3mins.) from BBC March, 2023

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Antiques Roadshow: Windrush generation nurses (3mins.) from BBC March, 2023

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Windrush generation nurses

Three nurses from the ‘Windrush generation’ share their stories.

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BBC One - Antiques Roadshow, Nursing Special, Windrush generation nurses

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Three nurses from the ‘Windrush generation’ share their stories.

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to borrow, call or text 07546 200 332

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A Trailblazing Nurse: stimulus/ provocation for anti-racist and inclusive 'learning about heritage' inset for teachers

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A Trailblazing Nurse: stimulus/ provocation for anti-racist and inclusive 'learning about heritage' inset for teachers

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Includes:-

1) Unconscious bias

2) Representation in the curriculum matters

3) New conversations about race, anti-racism and heritage

4) Actions for your classroom

For more information call or text 07546 200 332

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From ancient and medieval Africa, through colonization and enslavement, through wars, times of great change and onwards … to the creation of the NHS and beyond, the story of nursing has always also been the story of Britain’s Black nurses. This story includes many incredible nurses from around the world: talented, skilful, innovative, hardworking, resilient. Includes profiles of trailblazing women such as Asarto Ward, Annie Brewster and Mary Seacole.

NB. To find out about a Somerset connection: 'A Trailblazing nurse: Guyana to Somerset' Visit https://aplacecalledhome.glade.org/events/

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Sets some of the scene for the era that Lynette arrived in Somerset

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Sets some of the scene for the era that Lynette arrived in Somerset

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A compendium of memories will appeal to all who grew up in this post-war decade, whether in town or country, wealth or poverty. With chapters on games and hobbies, holidays, music and fashion, the wonderful memories and delightful illustrations will bring back this decade of childhood, and jog memories about all aspects of life.

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Black Nurses: The Women who Saved the NHS (2024) from BBC4 (58mins.)

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Black Nurses: The Women who Saved the NHS (2024) from BBC4 (58mins.)

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b083dgtb

(NB. not currently available on BBC i-player) Documentary telling the story of the thousands of Caribbean and African women who answered the call 70 years ago to come to the UK to save the then ailing health service. A tale of a struggle to overcome racism, their fight for career progression and their battle for national recognition.

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BBC Four - Black Nurses: The Women Who Saved the NHS

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How Caribbean and African women came to the UK to save the then ailing health service.

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NHS Migrants: Mapped.  An interactive map to explore NHS migration, 200 countries, 6 continents (2020) from Migration Museum - Heart of the Nation

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NHS Migrants: Mapped.  An interactive map to explore NHS migration, 200 countries, 6 continents (2020) from Migration Museum - Heart of the Nation

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https://heartofthenation.migrationmuseum.org/map/

The NHS employs people from over 200 countries, spanning six continents. Click on a continent or region and then on the country name within each continent list to find out how many people holding that country's nationality worked for the NHS as of the end of March 2020.

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NHS migrants: Mapped | Heart of the Nation | Migration Museum

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History:  Aneurin Bevan and the setting up of the NHS. Patient care has progressed and led to improvements in the treatment of illness and disease. How has the care of patients improved over time? from BBC bitesize

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History:  Aneurin Bevan and the setting up of the NHS. Patient care has progressed and led to improvements in the treatment of illness and disease. How has the care of patients improved over time? from BBC bitesize

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z27nqhv/revision/5

History; Changes in health and medicine, c.1340 to the present day

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History:  Timeline of Medical Migrants:A Brief History from the Migration Museum - Heart of the Nation

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History:  Timeline of Medical Migrants:A Brief History from the Migration Museum - Heart of the Nation

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https://heartofthenation.migrationmuseum.org/medical-migrants-a-brief-history/

Medical Migrants: A Brief History

Migrants have made contributions to healthcare in Britain long before the birth of the NHS. This site shows some of the many medical migrants who have had a lasting impact on healthcare and medicine in this country over hundreds of years...from 1123 to the 1940s

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Migrants have made contributions to healthcare in Britain long before the birth of the NHS. Here are some of the many medical migrants who have had a lasting impact on healthcare and medicine in this country over hundreds of years…

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Dzagbele Matilda Asante – I Was Nursing In The UK Before Windrush And The NHS

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Dzagbele Matilda Asante – I Was Nursing In The UK Before Windrush And The NHS

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https://www.lnwh.nhs.uk/news/black-history-month-dzagbele-asante-10468/

Dzagbele Matilda Asante arrived in the UK from Africa’s Gold Coast in 1947. She was born in 1927 at La, Accra in the then Gold Coast (now Ghana).

There were African nurses born in Britain or from Africa in the health service before and during the fledgling years of the NHS.

See also:-

https://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/article/section/inspirational-women/dzagbele-matilda-asante-i-was-nursing-in-the-uk-before-windrush-and-the-nhs/

https://www.younghistoriansproject.org/early-women/dzagbele-matilda-asante

https://www.equality4blacknurses.com/post/inspirational-black-nurses-pioneer-nurse-dzagbele-matilda-asante

Article shows how Dzagbele Asante continued to inspire at 95; https://www.modernghana.com/news/1185715/dzagbele-matilda-asante-from-gold-coast-students.html

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Black History Month: Dzagbele Asante | Latest news

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Using money raised by National Lottery players,

The National Lottery Heritage Fund supports

projects that connect people and communities

with the UK’s heritage.

A Place Called Home is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Thanks to National Lottery players, within A Place Called Home, we have been able to put on this locality event 'A Trail-blazing Nurse; My journey from Guyana 65 yrs ago to train as a nurse at Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton”

Exploring migration themes through Lynnette's testimonial, stories, photos, family treasures and memorable items.

https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/

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Event lead was The GLADE Centre.  This event was being held within the project

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Event lead was The GLADE Centre.  This event was being held within the project

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Fifties Britain: Never so good? Or too good to be true? from the National Archives

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Fifties Britain: Never so good? Or too good to be true? from the National Archives

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Really useful document collection to allow students and teachers to develop their own questions and lines of historical enquiry on the political and social aspects of 1950s Britain.

Connections to the curriculum

These documents can be used to support any of the exam board specifications covering the political, social and cultural aspects of 20th century British history.

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The purpose of this document collection is to allow students and teachers to develop their own questions and lines of historical enquiry on the political and social aspects of 1950s Britain. The documents themselves are arranged according to theme, so that sources are grouped together rather than following a strict chronological order.

Some of the themes include:

the economy

rationing

housing

the National Health Service

race relations

cultural life

the Suez crisis

nuclear protest

Please also note that in a couple of cases sources relating to the same topic appear in the same popup window so it is necessary to scroll from side to side to explore them in detail.

Students could work with a group of sources or source type on a certain theme or linked themes. The documents should offer them a chance to develop their powers of evaluation and analysis and support their course work. Alternatively, teachers may wish to use the collection to develop their own resources or encourage students to 'curate' their own 'exhibition' of the most significant sources on the topic.

Students could also use more documents from our Cabinet Papers website. For example, there are cabinet papers relating to the death penalty, taxation under the conservatives, immigration and the National Health Service. Finally, there is an opportunity to consider film sources as interpretations of these events in relation to the documents by following the links to Pathé and the BFI provided here.

For many people, the 1950s were a golden age. 'Let's be frank about it,' declared Harold Macmillan in July 1957: 'most of our people have never had it so good.' Almost immediately the Prime Minister's words became a symbol of the age, capturing the optimism of a nation basking in the sunshine of the affluent society. Yet like so many political quotations, they are often misunderstood. Macmillan meant them not as an expression of complacency, but as a warning. 'What is worrying us,' he went on, 'is "Is it too good to be true?" or perhaps I should say "Is it too good to last?"'

It is no wonder that we rarely remember what Macmillan really meant by his famous phrase. Even at the time, most people preferred to enjoy the fruits of consumerism rather than worry about the future. At the beginning of the 1950s, after all, Britain had been threadbare, bombed-out, financially and morally exhausted. Its major cities were still bombsites, it was almost impossible for many families to borrow money, rationing was harsher than ever, and there was an acute shortage of decent housing. Yet within less than ten years, everything had changed; indeed, perhaps more than any other post-war decade, it was the 1950s that transformed Britain's social and cultural landscape.

As the economy began to boom, wages soared and unemployment almost disappeared, everyday life became more comfortable. Towns and cities were reshaped by council estates, tower blocks and shopping centres. Supermarkets transformed families' shopping habits, while the television began to make inroads into their leisure time. Millions of people tuned in especially for the Coronation in 1953, with neighbours crowding into the houses of those lucky few who owned or rented sets. Inspired by the groundbreaking Festival of Britain, the design of the typical home, self-consciously upbeat and forward-looking, marked the transition to what contemporaries optimistically called the Space Age. And even the nation's roads reflected the new spirit, symbolized by the opening of Britain's first motorway, the Preston bypass, in 1958.

It was this extraordinary economic growth that paved the way for everything that followed. In particular, the youth culture of the day was entirely based on the emergence of a new teenage generation. Better housed and educated than ever before, the generation of Cliff Richard and Adam Faith enjoyed unprecedented financial independence. They watched television and read comics; they bought records and danced to rock music. In their carefree hedonism and economic assertiveness, they often shocked their elders: when 'Rock Around the Clock' reached Britain in 1955, there was much anguished talk of 'rock and roll riots'. In truth, though, most teenagers were fairly conservative, individualistic and materialistic - just like their parents.

Yet as the reaction to rock and roll suggests, there was a thick vein of anxiety beneath the surface of the affluent society. Despite the apparent complacency of Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan, many politicians were worried about Britain's economic prospects. And though historians still argue about the extent of the famous 'Butskellite' consensus, epitomized by the moderate figures of R. A. Butler (Conservative) and Hugh Gaitskell (Labour), Britain's political direction remained the stuff of ferocious debate. Inside the Labour Party, Aneurin Bevan's resignation over the imposition of prescription charges in 1951 set the tone for a decade of bitter faction fighting. Inside the Tory Party, meanwhile, the abortive 'Robot' scheme to set the pound free a year later offered a hint of the emerging free-market doctrines that would eventually culminate in Thatcherism.

All the time, Britain's world status was changing rapidly. As one colony after another chose independence, the Empire was slowly fading into history, while the fiasco of the Suez Crisis in 1956 seemed to mark the end of Britain's days as a world power. Massive Commonwealth immigration, which transformed the face of the nation's cities, alarmed many working-class voters, while the Notting Hill riots in 1958 exposed the ugly face of everyday racism. With violent crime rapidly increasing, many commentators warned of rising 'juvenile delinquency'. And overshadowing everything else was the looming threat of nuclear war, which prompted some people to join the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Today, CND's marches are some of the best-remembered events of the decade. Still, the truth is that they only attracted a minority. Most people preferred to spend their weekends shopping for a new sofa instead.
Dominic Sandbrook is the author of 'Never Had it So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles'.

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The purpose of this document collection is to allow students and teachers to develop their own questions and lines of historical enquiry on the political and social aspects of 1950s Britain. The documents themselves are arranged according to theme, so that sources are grouped together rather than following a strict chronological order.

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Many Rivers to Cross: Caribbean people in the NHS 1948-69 

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Many Rivers to Cross: Caribbean people in the NHS 1948-69 

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By Ann Kramer (Author), Great Britain Department of Health (Author), NHS Executive (Author), Sugar Media (Author)

After WW2, the British Government recruited thousands of people from throughout the Caribbean to work in British hospitals in a range of roles including doctors and nurses, cleaners and porters, midwives and health visitors, cooks and administrators. Using archive and contemporary photographs and oral history, this publication explores the stories of some of these men and women who came to live and work in Britain from the late 1940s through to the 1960s, and considers the challenges and discrimination they had to overcome. In doing so, the book recognises the significant part that immigrants from the Caribbean played in the development of the NHS during its formative years.

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Somerset connection:- Princess Tsehai as a Nurse (1941); served as a volunteer for the Ethiopian Red Cross after its establishment in 1935.  Princess Tsehai Haile Selassie was the daughter of Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie, born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She moved to London to live with her father in exile in 1936.

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Somerset connection:- Princess Tsehai as a Nurse (1941); served as a volunteer for the Ethiopian Red Cross after its establishment in 1935.  Princess Tsehai Haile Selassie was the daughter of Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie, born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She moved to London to live with her father in exile in 1936.

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Princess Tsehai - Ethiopian Princess who trained as a nurse in the UK Princess Tsehai - Ethiopian Princess who trained as a nurse in the UK

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Princess Tsehai - the Ethiopian Princess who trained as a nurse in the UK. Just one of the unknown and forgotten Black Britons we'll be exploring throughout Black History Month UK 2023 this October as part of our Before Windrush theme.

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Publisher; Nu Jak Media. Compiled by Nubian Jak

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Nursing A Nation; An anthology of African and Caribbean contributions to Britain's health services

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Nursing A Nation; An anthology of African and Caribbean contributions to Britain's health services

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A comprehensive coverage, with many personal histories., this book makes a massive addition to the available literature on the contribution of the African diaspora to medical practice and the provision of health services in Britain. It fills a huge gap in British historians’ recording of that contribution.

See also; Whelan, J. (2021). Nursing the Nation ([edition unavailable]). Rutgers University Press. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/3876728/nursing-the-nation-building-the-nurse-labor-force-pdf (Original work published 2021)

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Somerset connection:- Princess Omo-Oba Adenrele  Ademola (b. 1916) ; a Nigerian princess and nurse who went to school in Somerset

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Somerset connection:- Princess Omo-Oba Adenrele  Ademola (b. 1916) ; a Nigerian princess and nurse who went to school in Somerset

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Born in Nigeria, as a Nigerian princess and nurse.After attending school in Somerset, she trained as a nurse in London in the 1930s, and remained working there through World War II.

See also articles at:-

https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20250613143223/https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/african-princess-in-guys-the-story-of-princess-adenrele-ademola/

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Radical Black Women; for KS3, KS4 and KS5, making knowledge and resources about Black history freely available for educators to use, from Young Historians Project, artist Meera Shakti Osborne & publishing house Lawrence Wishart

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Radical Black Women; for KS3, KS4 and KS5, making knowledge and resources about Black history freely available for educators to use, from Young Historians Project, artist Meera Shakti Osborne & publishing house Lawrence Wishart

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https://lwbooks.co.uk/radical-black-women-series-old/educational-resources

As part of the Radical Black Women series, Lawrence Wishart have collaborated with the Young Historians Project and artist Meera Shakti Osborne to create a series of educational resources on Black women’s activism in Britain

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Educational resources - Lawrence Wishart

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Lawrence Wishart have collaborated with the Young Historians Project and artist Meera Shakti to create educational resources on Black women’s activism in Britain

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Video 3: Introduction to African women and the Health Service, one section in the workbooks from Young History Project

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Video 3: Introduction to African women and the Health Service, one section in the workbooks from Young History Project

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https://www.younghistoriansproject.org/resources

Find Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 5 workbooks including writing exercises, primary source analysis tasks, a Black British history timeline, and history themed word–searches, crosswords, and quizzes. And short videos to explain each section of the workbooks

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Click to view our and workbooks, which include writing exercises, primary source analysis tasks, a Black British history timeline, and history themed word-searches, crosswords, and quizzes. Below are short videos to explain each section of the workbooks. The resources are available for download via the hyperlinks and are free to reproduce for non-commercial use.

Learning resources videos

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Learning Resources | Young Historians Project

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Explore learning resources on Black British history

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African nurses: What part did they play in British health services? From the National Archives, lesson developed in collaboration with the Young Historians Project 

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African nurses: What part did they play in British health services? From the National Archives, lesson developed in collaboration with the Young Historians Project 

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https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/african-nurses/

Use this lesson to find original documents which explore the role of African nurses in the health services of Britain.

Please note that some sources contain offensive language that was used at the time and is unacceptable today.

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What part did they play in British health services?

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The Power of the Nurse's Uniform (2mins 4s) from BBC 2016

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The Power of the Nurse's Uniform (2mins 4s) from BBC 2016

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04hjnd9

Extract from the 58mins documentry Black Nurses: women who saved the NHS

Former midwife Beverley Chapman reveals the significance of her role and the part she played bolstering the NHS after arriving in the UK in 1969 aged just 18 from Jamaica.

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BBC Four - Black Nurses: The Women Who Saved the NHS, The power of the nurse's uniform

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Former NHS Midwife Beverley Chapman revisits her earliest nursing memories

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Heart of the Nation: Migration & the making of the NHS. Digital exhibition from the Migration Museum 

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Heart of the Nation: Migration & the making of the NHS. Digital exhibition from the Migration Museum 

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https://heartofthenation.migrationmuseum.org/arrival/

Heart of the Nation: Migration and the making of the NHS, the brand new digital exhibition from the Migration Museum shining a light on the stories and experiences of people who have come to Britain to work in the NHS over the past 72 years is now live. Visit the exhibition at: heartofthenation.migrationmuseum.org

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Nurses and doctors arrived with very different levels of experience. Some were already specialists in their field. Others came for postgraduate qualification, or to begin their training from scratch.

Although many new arrivals had prior knowledge and connections, the experience of arrival was still often a shock. Many intended to come for training and further qualifications and did not intend to stay. Others did not come to the UK with the intention of working in healthcare - but ended up finding roles within the NHS upon arrival.

Almost all new arrivals had to do additional training in the UK, regardless of whether or not they already had experience. Some had to change course because their qualifications earned overseas weren't recognised. Others faced barriers because of their nationality or race. For many, the experience was gruelling.

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Arrival | Heart of the Nation | Migration Museum

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Nurses and doctors arrived with very different levels of experience. Some were already specialists in their field. Others came for postgraduate qualification, or to begin their training from scratch. Although many new arrivals had prior knowledge and connections, the experience of arrival was still often a shock.

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Over 70 years ago, thousands of Caribbean and African women answered the call to come to the UK to save the health service & build the NHS (1min44s)  from BBC Radio 4 posted on Facebook 24 February 2019

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Over 70 years ago, thousands of Caribbean and African women answered the call to come to the UK to save the health service & build the NHS (1min44s)  from BBC Radio 4 posted on Facebook 24 February 2019

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https://www.facebook.com/BBCRadio4/videos/the-black-nurses-who-saved-the-nhs/371616020055640/

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Celebrating Black History Month with nurse, Doreen Black (2mins 59s) from NHS

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Celebrating Black History Month with nurse, Doreen Black (2mins 59s) from NHS

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe2ZLkfRyf4

Doreen Black is the divisional head of nursing for the surgical division at the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust. Doreen oversees areas such as intensive care, surgery, trauma and orthopaedics. For many Black patients, a successful blood transfusion will most likely come from a donor of the same ethnic background As we continue to celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth NHS are sharing the stories of the individuals driving change and raising awareness in the Black community. This is their story.

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Celebrating Black History Month with nurse, Doreen Black

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New materials created within A PLACE CALLED HOME will be uploaded later this autumn

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New materials created within A PLACE CALLED HOME will be uploaded later this autumn

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Somerset connection:- Emma Gifford, Nurse; for her outstanding work, Emma was awarded an O.B.E and given the Freedom of the Borough of Chard in 1920. from Chard Museum 

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Somerset connection:- Emma Gifford, Nurse; for her outstanding work, Emma was awarded an O.B.E and given the Freedom of the Borough of Chard in 1920. from Chard Museum 

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https://www.chardmuseum.co.uk/people/emma-gifford

Chard Museum has information & exhibits that puts Emma's life and outstanding work into context, time & place.

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Irish nurses in wartime Britain: Mary Morris's diary 1939 from Our Migration Story

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Irish nurses in wartime Britain: Mary Morris's diary 1939 from Our Migration Story

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Mary Morris arrived in Britain from Southern Ireland in 1939 when she was 18 years old to train as a nurse.

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Written by Professor Wendy Webster, Department of History, University of Huddersfield

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Our Migration Story: The Making of Britain

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Irish nurses in wartime Britain: Mary Morris’s diary

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NHS Somerset stories over the last 75 years, 2023 from NHS Somerset-Somerset Cares

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NHS Somerset stories over the last 75 years, 2023 from NHS Somerset-Somerset Cares

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https://oursomerset.org.uk/nhs-birthday-2023/nhs75-yourstories/

As we commemorate 75th anniversary of the NHS , memories & stopries were gathered celebrating the positive impact the NHS in Somerset has had on all our lives.

"Read the memories of those working in the NHS, volunteering, and patients. Your stories matter and we hope you enjoy reading them."

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Your NHS stories over the last 75 years

This year, as we commemorate this significant anniversary, celebrating the positive impact the NHS in Somerset has had on all our lives. We can all play a role in supporting the NHS in this special birthday year.

Read the memories of those working in the NHS, volunteering, and patients. Your stories matter and we hope you enjoy reading them.

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NHS 75th Birthday - your memories Sharing the wonderful stories you've told us about your experience of the NHS over the last 75 years Home " NHS Birthday 2023 " NHS75 - your stories Your NHS stories over the last 75 years This year, as we commemorate this significant anniversary, celebrating the positive impact the...

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Available to book and view: documentary film 'A Trailblazing Nurse', with accompanying engagement & interpretation materials, workshop, interactive display, activities and items for loan.  To enquire about booking a free film-showing and discussion contact lynn@glade.org

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Royal Service of Princess Tsehai as a Nurse (1941) 

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Royal Service of Princess Tsehai as a Nurse (1941) 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfOM21SWgl8

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Royal Service of Princess Tsehai as a Nurse (1941) | ET 75th Anniversary | Airflix Archive

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Irish Nurses in the NHS: An oral history by Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin and Neha Doshi

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Irish Nurses in the NHS: An oral history by Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin and Neha Doshi

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NB see above section for podcasts, interview from RTE

From the inception of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, Irish women and men were actively recruited to train and work as nurses in British hospitals. By the 1960s approximately 30,000 Irish-born nurses were working across the NHS, constituting around 12% of all nursing staff.

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How Irish nurses helped to build the NHS in Britain - articles, podcasts & interview from Raidió Teilifís Éireann, Ireland's National Public Service Media 2025

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How Irish nurses helped to build the NHS in Britain - articles, podcasts & interview from Raidió Teilifís Éireann, Ireland's National Public Service Media 2025

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https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2025/0725/1494900-irish-nurses-nhs-britain-oral-history/

Contribution of Irish nurses to NHS being highlighted on 75th anniversary of founding

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Analysis: A new book looks at the 'under the radar' role of Irish nurses in NHS hospitals the length and breadth of Britain By Louise Ryan, London Metropolitan University; Grainne McPolin and Neha Doshi, London Metropolitan University
'They put an awful lot into the NHS, right from the beginning. In the 1950s, 1960s, there was an awful lot of Irish nurses then... hospitals would have been without an awful lot of staff if the Irish nurses weren't here' (Nessa, Sligowoman who began nurse training in Yorkshire in 1957).

On the 6 August 1949 an advertisement appeared in the Connaught Telegraphinforming readers of job vacancies in Britain's newly established National Health Service. A recruitment officer, Miss Lavelle, would be touring the region in the coming weeks including Ballina, Westport, Castlebar and Claremorris. Any interested 'young lady' of 'good education' aged over 17½ years, should contact Miss Lavelle to arrange an interview for nurse training.

Ads like this appeared in all Irish papers from the 1940s to the 1980s and resulted in tens of thousands of young people heading to hospitals throughout the length and breadth of Britain to pursue nursing careers. Given that the great waves of Irish recruitment to the NHS took place many decades ago, those pioneering Irish nurses are now an ageing population so there is an urgency to gather as many stories as possible, before it's too late.

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From RTÉ Radio 1's Morning Ireland, Prof Louise Ryan on the contribution of Irish nurses to the UK NHS
We interviewed 45 Irish people between 2022 and 2023 who had worked in the NHS for Irish Nurses in the NHS: an Oral History. Most of the interviewees are now aged over 70 years, several are in their 80s and a few are over 90. Their stories cover the full range of experiences, from early student days through nursing careers, including lots of fun and laughter as well as some tears and tribulations along the way. This history offers insights into the tremendous but often unrecognised contribution that Irish nurses have made to the NHS over seven decades.

At a time when nurse training in Ireland was very limited and extremely expensive, the chance to train for free, and to benefit from live-in accommodation in British hospitals proved highly attractive. Furthermore, for ambitious young women, who wanted to pursue a career but faced limited prospects in Ireland, moving to Britain to train as a nurse seemed quite a straightforward route into exciting new opportunities.
From the Irish Nurses in the NHS podcast, five Irish nurses talks about their first experiences on setting foot in the UK
Orla, originally from Cork, while noting the difficulty of getting into nurse training in Ireland, due to long waiting lists and high costs, emphasised the apparent ease of gaining access to nurse training in Britain: 'There were adverts and I wrote off to some of the places advertising nursing places and there was one group coming to interview at the Intercontinental Hotel in Cork and I thought, "Oh that's great, I don't even have to find them, they're coming to me" and that's after I'd been for some of the local hospitals and was told there was this waiting list...'

Following its establishment in 1948, it was quickly apparent that the NHS could not be staffed without migrants. During the 1960s, 11% of all nurses recruited to hospitals in the south-east of England were born in the Irish republic. By the 1970s, there were 31,000 Irish-born nurses in Britain, constituting 12% of all nursing staff.

A look at recruitment and training at one hospital in Liverpool, during the 1950s-60s, is quite illuminating. Out of 641 recruits, 350 were from 'Eire' or Southern Ireland, with a further 7 from Northern Ireland, 8 from the Caribbean, 5 from Nigeria and 3 from Mauritius. By contrast, just over 38% were from England.
From the Irish Nurses in the NHS podcast, contributors talk about the perception of Irish nurses working in Britain
Indeed, several of the nurses we interviewed mentioned that the English were often a minority in their student cohorts and some even dropped out before completing the course. For example, Aileen, from Co Mayo, described her student cohort in London in the early 1970s: 'Four English girls started in our group... One finished the course'. She went on to explain that hospital managers 'did recognise that if they were dependent on the English becoming nurses, they would have struggled for actual bodies on the ward.'

Interestingly, the image of the Irish nurse is fairly prevalent in British popular culture and has featured in several hospital dramas. Brenda Fricker, who won an Oscar for her role in My Left Foot, began her career playing an Irish nurse in the long running British TV series Casualty and also had a brief role as a nurse in Coronation Street. Sorcha Cusack played an Irish staff nurse for several years on Holby City, while her niece, Megan Cusack, played an Irish student nurse more recently on the very successful drama Call the Midwife.
From PBS Call the Midwife, profile of Anne Corrigan as played by Megan Cusack
But despite the image of the Irish nurse in British popular culture, the actual contribution made by Irish nurses to the NHS has not been publicly acknowledged. While most of the nurses we interviewed felt valued and appreciated by patients on an individual basis, they felt that the overall prevalence and significance of Irish nurses across the health service needed greater recognition. Caitriona was originally from Dublin and trained in Manchester in the 1960s. She emphasised that recognition was needed: 'there should be a lot of honour given to the Irish... they made the National Health.'

Sinead left Kerry in the 1970s to train in London. She noted that the 'massive' role of Irish nurses was not acknowledged or known about in wider society. Indeed, it was this lack of acknowledgement that motivated her to take part in our research project: 'I've never seen it in the media... it hasn't really been acknowledged, that's one of the reasons actually I did the interview because I thought ... the contribution that Irish nurses have made to the NHS is phenomenal .... we've made a massive contribution but I feel it hasn't been acknowledged ... Irish nurses had been under the radar'.

The sheer scale and significance of Irish nurses' contribution to the NHS deserves to be acknowledged and celebrated. We hope that our book and podcast series will start a national conversation across Britain and Ireland about this remarkable contribution.
Irish Nurses in the NHS: An Oral History by Louise Ryan, Grainne McPolin and Neha Doshi is published by Four Courts Press. The Irish Nurses in the NHS podcast series is available here
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Prof Louise Ryan is a Senior Professor of Sociology and director of the Global Diversities and Inequalities research centre at London Metropolitan University. Gráinne McPolin is a radio producer and podcaster. She is a former nurse having spent many years of her career working in Britain's National Health Service hospitals. Neha Doshi is a PhD researcher and Associate Lecturer at London Metropolitan University whose research focuses on race and media. The views expressed here are those of the author and do not represent or reflect the views of RTÉ

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How Irish nurses helped to build the NHS in Britain

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A new book looks at the 'under the radar' role of Irish nurses in NHS hospitals the length and breadth of Britain

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The nurses who left Ireland to work for the NHS from RCN magazibe Sept2025

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The nurses who left Ireland to work for the NHS from RCN magazibe Sept2025

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https://www.rcn.org.uk/magazines/History/2025/Sep/The-nurses-who-left-Ireland-to-work-for-the-NHS

By 1971, more than 30,000 Irish-born nurses were employed by the NHS.

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The nurses who left Ireland to work for the NHS | RCN Magazine | Royal College of Nursing

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A leap into the unknown led to lifelong careers in the NHS for thousands of Irish nurses

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Nurses' voices from WW2, the Ireland Connection  from RCN 2024

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Nurses' voices from WW2, the Ireland Connection  from RCN 2024

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This books shines a light on the contribution of nurses from across Ireland working in dangerous conditions in the Second World War.

Memories and records, as well as a roll of honour, of nurses from across Ireland has been compiled by the Royal College of Nursing Northern Ireland.

These nurses followed thousands of ships of Allied troops who landed in France on June 6 1944 amid intense fighting in the bid to liberate the nation from the Nazi Germany occupation.

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Mary Mulry was eighteen years old when she arrived in London from Ireland to begin training as a nurse. The year was 1939.

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Nurses Voices from WW1 from RCN Northern Ireland

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Nurses Voices from WW1 from RCN Northern Ireland

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Featuring the story of Nurse Margaret (Hessie) Johnston from Ballinderry, Lisburn.  She joined the Queen Alexandra Imperial Military Nursing Service (R) and was sent out to Cairo, Egypt.

NB the Irish Linen Centre, Lisburn Museum features artefacts and memorabilia belonging to staff nurse Johnston.

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Meet the NHS’s first Filipino CNO - Chief Nursing Officer from RCN magazine Feb2024

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Meet the NHS’s first Filipino CNO - Chief Nursing Officer from RCN magazine Feb2024

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https://www.rcn.org.uk/magazines/People/2024/Feb/Meet-the-NHSs-first-Filipino-CNO

More than 25,000 nurses who are educated in the Philippines work in the NHS, but Oliver Soriano is the first to make it to the top.

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Meet the NHS’s first Filipino CNO | RCN Magazine | Royal College of Nursing

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We talk to Oliver Soriano, the NHS’s first Filipino CNO about his new role and his top career tips.

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https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/workforce-and-business/workforce-diversity/nhs-workforce/latest/

In June 2022, over 1.3 million people were employed by the NHS, this link shows breakdown by % of each ethnic group.

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1. Main facts and figures

in June 2022, over 1.3 million people were employed by the NHS

out of NHS staff whose ethnicity was known, 74.3% were white and 25.7% were from ethnic minority groups (not including white minority groups)

68.7% of professionally qualified clinical staff were white, and were 15.9% were Asian

ethnic minority staff made up 15.0% of people in managerial level positions, and 11.3% of senior managerial level positions

ethnic minority staff made up 49.9% of hospital and community health services (HCHS) doctors

Asian staff made up the highest percentage of HCHS doctors working in staff grade, specialty doctor, and associate specialist positions

2. Things you need to know

What the data measures

The data shows the number of NHS staff working in NHS trusts and other core organisations in England, and the percentage from each ethnic group.

The data is based on the number of full and part-time NHS staff at the end of June 2022.

The broad areas of the NHS workforce are:

Professionally qualified clinical staff

Support to clinical staff

NHS infrastructure support staff

other staff or those with unknown classification

Data is shown for the following roles:

ambulance staff, nurses and midwives, and hospital and community health services (HCHS) doctors - these are from the professionally qualified clinical staff group of roles

hotel, property and estates (including domestic and estates services, such as cleaning and maintenance), and managers and senior managers - these are from the NHS infrastructure support group of roles

Data is also shown for individual grades of HCHS doctors. Download the data for breakdowns of different roles and grades.

Percentages and rates are rounded to 1 decimal place.

Not included in the data

The data does not include:

staff working in primary care, like GPs and dentists in dental practices

staff working in NHS support organisations, and central bodies like commissioning support units and NHS Digital

agency staff and contractors

The ethnic groups used in the data

Data is shown for the following 6 ethnic groups:

NHS staff report their own ethnicity. Ethnicity was not known for 4.4% of NHS staff. This includes staff whose ethnicity was unknown, refused, not stated, and staff who used discontinued ethnicity codes for categories used by the NHS.

Percentages are based only on staff whose ethnicity is known. They may be different to percentages published by the NHS.

Methodology

Read the detailed methodology document for this data.

Summary of NHS workforce By ethnicity Summary

The data shows that:

in June 2022, over 1.3 million people were employed by the NHS

out of NHS staff whose ethnicity was known, 74.3% were white - by comparison, 80.7% of the working age population in England was white at the time of the 2021 Census

Asian staff made up 12.5% of the NHS workforce, and 10.1% of the working age population

black staff made up 7.4% of the NHS workforce, and 4.4% of the working age population

between 2009 and 2022, the percentage of NHS staff who were white went down from 84.1% to 74.3%

the percentage of NHS staff who were Asian went up from 7.3% to 12.5% - the biggest increase out of all ethnic groups

Summary of NHS workforce By ethnicity and staff group Summary

Summary of NHS workforce By ethnicity (professionally qualified clinical staff) Summary

The data shows that, between 2009 and 2022:

In June 2022:

Summary of NHS workforce By ethnicity and grade (hospital and community health services doctors) Summary

Hospital and community health services (HCHS) doctors work within the 'professionally qualified clinical staff' group of roles in the NHS. They do not include GPs and dentists.

The data shows that:

in June 2022, there were 125,568 HCHS doctors in the NHS, with around 67% of them working at consultant or specialty registrar grades

Asian staff made up the highest percentage of HCHS doctors working in staff grade (40.1%), specialty doctor (44.2%), and associate specialist (43.5%) grades

white staff made up the highest percentage of HCHS doctors working in all other grades, with Asian staff the second largest ethnic group in every case

the grades with the largest percentages of black doctors were core training (10.0%), staff grade (8.6%), and specialty doctor and specialty registrar (both 8.3%)

Summary of NHS workforce By ethnicity and role (hotel, property and estates) Summary

Staff in hotel, property and estates roles are part of the 'infrastructure support' group of roles in the NHS. They include:

The data shows that:

in June 2022, there were around 70,204 staff working in roles within hotel, property and estates in the NHS

80.3% of staff in these roles were white, 8.7% were Asian, 6.8% were black, and 2.2% were from the 'other' ethnic group

between 2009 and 2022, the percentage of hotel, property and estates staff who were white went down from 87.6% to 80.3%

the percentage who were Asian went up from 4.9% to 8.7%

the percentage who were black went up from 4.7% to 6.8%

Summary of NHS workforce By ethnicity and grade (managers and senior managers) Summary

The data shows that, in June 2022:

there were around 35,943 staff in managerial and senior managerial roles in the NHS

ethnic minority staff made up 15.0% of positions at managerial level, and 11.3% at senior managerial level

for every ethnic minority group, there was a higher percentage of staff in manager roles than there were in senior manager roles

for white staff, there was a higher percentage of staff in senior manager roles than manager roles

9. Data sources

Source

NHS Workforce Statistics - June 2022

Type of data

Administrative data

Type of statistic

Official statistics

Publisher

NHS Digital

Publication frequency

Quarterly

Purpose of data source

To monitor equality and diversity among people working for the NHS.

10. Download the data

NHS Workforce Data June 2022 - Spreadsheet (csv) 3 MB

This file contains the following: Measure, Time, Ethnicity, Ethnicity_type, Staff_Group, Role_Group, Grade, Value, Value_type, Numerator, Denominator

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Over 1.3 million people were employed by the NHS in June 2022 and 74.3% of them were white (out of people whose ethnicity was known).

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Somerset NHS story 10 years after moving to UK from Nigeria. Oct2022

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Somerset NHS story 10 years after moving to UK from Nigeria. Oct2022

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https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/black-history-month-somerset-nurse-7737985

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Somerset nurse’s story 10 years after moving to UK from Nigeria

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Omotayo (Tayo) Evans is Nigerian by birth and has previously worked in a supported-living home for autistic individuals

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Bath hospital unveils mural celebrating African women in healthcare. Nov2021

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Bath hospital unveils mural celebrating African women in healthcare. Nov2021

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Bath hospital unveils mural celebrating African women in healthcare

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Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust unviels a mural celebrating the contribution of African women in healthcare.  Oct2024

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Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust unviels a mural celebrating the contribution of African women in healthcare.  Oct2024

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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

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Guy’s and St Thomas’ unveils mural celebrating African women in healthcare

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A mural celebrating the contribution of African women in healthcare has been unveiled by Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.

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Harold Moody, by Ronald Moody, 1997, based on a work of 1946 sourced from the National Portrait Gallery

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Dr. Harold Moody; a physician who came to Britain, from Jamaica in 1904

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Dr. Harold Moody; a physician who came to Britain, from Jamaica in 1904

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1904 arrived in Britain to study medicine at King’s College

In 1910 he qualified as a doctor yet was refused an appointment at a hospital or any practices in that era.

In 1913 Harold set up his own practice in Peckham, London. and married Olive Mable Tranter, a white nurse.

In 1930 Dr. Harold Moody founded the League of Coloured Peoples, aiming to fight discrimination and seek better opportunities and conditions for students and workers from Africa and the West Indies in England.

Find out more at:

https://www.history.co.uk/articles/dr-harold-moody-life-influence

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/dr-harold-moody

https://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/article/section/second-world-war-service-and-sacrifice/dr-harold-moody-1882-1947/

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Mary Seacole Statue. Short film 1min.55s from the Mary Seacole Trust (June 2016)

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Mary Seacole Statue. Short film 1min.55s from the Mary Seacole Trust (June 2016)

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https://www.maryseacoletrust.org.uk/mary-seacole-statue/

On 30 June 2016, a memorial statue of Mary Seacole was unveiled by Baroness Floella Benjamin OBE in the gardens of St Thomas’s Hospital; the UK’s first in honour of a named black woman

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Mary Seacole Trust, Life, Work & Achievements of Mary Seacole

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Mary Seacole Statue - Mary Seacole Trust, Life, Work & Achievements of Mary Seacole

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On 30 June 2016, a memorial statue of Mary Seacole was unveiled by Baroness Floella Benjamin OBE in the gardens of St Thomas’s Hospital; the UK’s first in honour of a named black woman. The unveiling followed a 12 year campaign for funding by the Mary Seacole Memorial Statue Appeal, raising over half […]

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Helping busy teachers keep their curriculum diverse - with a Trail Blazing Nurse's testimony.

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Helping busy teachers keep their curriculum diverse - with a Trail Blazing Nurse's testimony.

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A short guide to be a contribution to more inclusive teaching, learning and generating heritage curiosity in the classroom. And to help busy teachers with age-relevant & subject-specific suggestions.

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Stencil & Stitch - a multi media activity exploring people stories and contributions to health and social care.

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Stencil & Stitch - a multi media activity exploring people stories and contributions to health and social care.

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This creative activity encourages members of the community to share stories, photographs, or memories connected to the African, Caribbean and Asian contributions building the NHS and prompt local memories and stories. A textile item is created.

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Art focus inspired by a Trailblazing Nurse

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Art focus inspired by a Trailblazing Nurse

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Examples of Guided Questions Prompting New Conversations about Heritage

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Examples of Guided Questions Prompting New Conversations about Heritage

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The Art of Nursing: Creativity, Resistance, Renewal an exhibition from Royal College of Nursing RCN

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The Art of Nursing: Creativity, Resistance, Renewal an exhibition from Royal College of Nursing RCN

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https://www.rcn.org.uk/library-exhibitions/The-Art-of-Nursing

An exhibition on display now at RCN headquarters in London and running until 31 December 2027. Through historical and contemporary artwork, it focuses on how art and nursing are interlinked, in ways that might surprise the viewer.

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The Art of Nursing | Library | Exhibitions | Royal College of Nursing

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From scrubs to sketches: the art of nursing.  An article in RCN magazine Dec2025 

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From scrubs to sketches: the art of nursing.  An article in RCN magazine Dec2025 

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https://www.rcn.org.uk/magazines/People/2025/Dec/From-scrubs-to-sketches-the-art-of-nursing

Nursing staff are reclaiming their place in the frame at a new exhibition at RCN HQ in London

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From scrubs to sketches: the art of nursing | RCN Magazine | Royal College of Nursing

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Behind the scenes at The Art of Nursing, an exhibition at RCN HQ

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Dame Nita Barrow and the development of black nursing leaders in the West Indies

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Dame Nita Barrow and the development of black nursing leaders in the West Indies

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https://bulletin.ukahn.org/dame-nita-barrow-and-the-development-of-black-nursing-leaders-in-the-west-indies/

This article focuses on the early career of Dame Nita and her inspiring rise from middle class schoolgirl, probationer nurse, to become the first black matron of the University College Hospital of the West Indies.

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Breaking the Glass Ceiling: The Stories of Three Caribbean Nurses

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Breaking the Glass Ceiling: The Stories of Three Caribbean Nurses

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This book documents the achievements of three leaders in Caribbean nursing at a time when the struggle for indigenous leadership in all areas of West Indian societies was occurring. Dame Nita Barrow of Barbados, Berenice Dolly of Trinidad and Tobago, and Dr. Mary Sievwright of Jamaica. They were bright, black women who embraced each challenge that came their way as an opportunity for growth and their selfless devotion to service. They worked relentlessly to improve the image of nursing, the nursing profession, and the status of women. Each one did so in her own unique way, and each had a deep, abiding religious faith. Their stories depict their different approaches to their service to women generally and nursing specifically, whether it was in the international arena, in the Caribbean setting or in their own native land.

See also book review at; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/26552465_Book_Review_Breaking_the_Glass_Ceiling_the_Stories_of_Three_Caribbean_Nurses_by_Jocelyn_Hezekiah_University_of_the_West_Indies_Press_2000_Trailblazers_in_Nursing_Education_a_Caribbean_Perspective_by_H

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Includes a chapter on Lynette's career in the NHS: Making the Most of Equal Opportunity by Melba Wilson. Published April 1994

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Providing advice and information on a range of health matters, taking up political issues that impede the delivery of good healthcare - lack of accessibility to care and culturally insensitive treatment - and offers insight into ways black women deal with challenges.