The NHS’s bizarre diversity A to Z
When the National Health Service was formed in 1948, it had three goals: it would meet the needs of everyone, it would be free at the point of service, and its services would be based on clinical need, not ability to pay – a revolutionary, and ambitious, challenge. Fast forward 73 years though and it appears that our NHS – not content with providing health to the nation – has adopted a rather different set of priorities. Take, for example, the equality and diversity section of its website. Recently it appears that the health service found the time to create a helpful ‘A to Z’ of diverse terms for staff to