Principles to support anti-racism in midwifery and nursing education and practice
Racism and other forms of discrimination not only affect people receiving care, but also many midwifery and nursing professionals who provide it.
Everyone deserves to receive equitable, culturally safe, anti-racist, unbiased care.
Students and nursing and midwifery professionals deserve to learn and work in psychologically safe environments where discriminatory behaviours and biases are called out, challenged, and not tolerated.
Anti-racism is fundamental to patient safety and public protection.
Our anti-racism principles set out some of the ways educators, organisations, registrants and employers can address concerns around inequities in care and racism across health and social care practice, education, and regulation.
The principles are designed to:
- Strengthen cultural safety, curiosity and respect in practice and education
- Explicitly advance meaningful, sustained anti-racist, bias-aware practice.
It is our expectation that universities and healthcare organisations will adopt these principles in course content, training and service provision.
Anti-racism principles for education and practice
Darllenwch yr egwyddorion (Cymraeg)
What do the principles include?
The principles are organised around four areas.
Who are the principles for?
These principles apply across all sectors where midwifery, nursing and, in England only, nursing associate practitioners learn and work.
That includes education institutions, independent and private providers, social care, and the agency workforce as well as the NHS.
The expectations, accountability and support are consistent for all registrants regardless of setting.
Using the principles
We’ve designed a gap analysis tool for universities and healthcare organisations to use to start aligning course content, training or service provision with the principles. We encourage organisations to repeat this self-assessment each year.
Download the gap analysis tool
