Ethnic Diversity – equal access to education and leadership opportunities for all

Project Overview

NIPEC is responsible for monitoring and reviewing the access to education for the ethnically diverse workforces of nurses, midwives, AHPs and their support staff in Health and Social Care Trusts. NIPEC completed a baseline survey in June 2022 and a follow-up survey in December 2022 to monitor the access to education. Read the survey report March 2023.  In December 2022 the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) also requested NIPEC to set up a regional collaborative to support the progression of “equal access to education and leadership opportunities for all”.  The collaborative met 28 March 2023. View the Powerpoint presentation .(PDF)

To help take this work forward NIPEC has recruited a Professional Officer for Ethnic Diversity for each Hospital Trust and the Independent Sector, who are working alongside the NIPEC Project Lead, Cathy McCusker.

Resources

The UK ENIC site is useful for those needing to check the comparability of education.

Read here about ENIC

The NMC has a pathway to support internationally educated nurses or midwives joining the register who have been forcibly displaced from their country eg a Refugee or Asylum Seeker

https://www.nmc.org.uk/registration/joining-the-register/information-for-forcibly-displaced-persons-about-applying-to-join-our-register/

Contact

Senior Professional Officer for this project: Cathy McCusker