Black Lives Matter training among new diversity courses offered to NHS staff – Telegraph.co.uk

A Government insider raised concern that the NHS description of BLM failed to mention the contentious calls from some supporters to defund the police.

Managers, nurses and doctors are being indoctrinated with deadly doses of dodgy diversity and pernicious propaganda all at the taxpayers expense, a Whitehall source said.

In another of the four NHS People diversity courses, medics are warned: "You may lose 'friends' as you commit to anti-racist allyship".

As part of this process, the course suggests: With fellow white people, honestly explore how racism privileges you and how racism injures BME [black and minority ethnic] people.

The course adds: "To become authentic allies who will be in the struggle for the long haul, white people will need to deliberately and honestly work on understanding white culture and white privilege. [...] White people will need to see themselves as racial beings."

Other modules include exercises on what is white privilege and the importance of understanding your personal privilege.

The revelations come after it emerged that the NHS diversity tsar Prerana Issar, the chief people officer, earned 35,000 more than the recently departed NHS chief executive.

According to accounts for 2019 to 2020, Ms Issar earned between 230,000 and 235,000 - more than her former boss Sir Simon Stevens and Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Danielle Boxall of the Taxpayers Alliance said: "Taxpayers expect their money to be focused on improving frontline NHS services, not wasted on woke causes.

"There are already extensive laws to prevent discrimination in the workplace so training programmes like this should not be required.

"With the upcoming spending review, ministers should cut back on these controversial courses and save much-needed funds."

Meanwhile, Sir John Hayes, the chairman of the Common Sense Group of more than 50 Tory MPs, has written to Mr Javid asking whether taxpayers money is being squandered on woke propaganda.

He labelled it grossly inappropriate for the health service to be propagating the work of radical critical race theorists and peddling the dangerously divisive notions of collective racial guilt and collective racial oppression.

His letter was prompted by a blog post on the NHS Leadership Academy website, titled Dear white people in the UK, which advised white staff to be uncomfortable when discussing issues of race.

The Telegraph then revealed how NHS leaders had been told in a series of online seminars on whiteness and racial justice this year that speaking with a cottage cream-thick English accent was an example of privilege.

While almost one-fifth of NHS staff are from ethnic minorities compared to 14 per cent of the UK population they are under-represented in many senior roles.

An NHS spokesman said :"The NHS continues to improve recruitment, retention and patient care by ensuring all staff feel valued and supported," they added.

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