NHS body’s plans to scrap BAME and BME labels welcomed by equality campaigners

“Professor Patrick Vernon, who is a non executive director at Birmingham and Solihull ICS (Integrated Care System), a collaboration of public NHS and council social care commissioners said: “In the context of health care, and tackling health inequalities BAME is unhelpful and it’s been unhelpful for many decades because it masks inequalities within communities. When you use the word BAME or issue statements such as ‘we must improve the health of BAME communities it is misleading, because you have to look at the needs of different communities.

“If you look at sickle cell or mental health for example, there is a clear disproportionality of black people, people of African and Caribbean descent who are affected by these conditions so the word BAME is not helpful.”

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