In every year covered by the data, a lower percentage of white NHS staff experienced discrimination than staff from all other ethnic groups combined.

Data showing the percentage of NHS staff from Asian, Black, Chinese, Mixed, White and Other ethnic groups. Data is broken down by ethnicity, type of role, and grade. This data is taken from NHS workforce statistics and is published on 'Ethnicity facts and figures'.

Around 8.48 percent of NHS staff in England experienced discrimination from a patient or a person connected to that patient/service user in 2023. Since 2018, experienced discrimination among NHS staff has increased. However, discrimination is experienced far more common by staff with other ethnic background than White, with roughly one in five staff members of ethnic background saying they experienced discrimination from patients in 2023.

In 2019, over 21.1 thousand nurses in the United Kingdom held an Asian nationality, while 18.6 thousand nurses had an EU nationality. Furthermore, there were approximately 14.6 thousand Asian doctors in the UK, and 10.4 thousand doctors with an EU nationality. The highest amount of NHS workers from the rest of the World were working as support to clinical staff, with 9.4 thousand categorized in this staff group.

Make up of non-UK NHS workers

The highest share of healthcare employees who were from the EU occur in the younger age groups, with almost 40 thousand employees in the period 2016 to 2018 aged under 34 years of age. While, 39 thousand health care workers in the UK aged between 35 and 44 years are from outside of the EU. 30 thousand NHS employees working in London were EU nationals, the highest amount of any region in the UK although London is one the most populated and most diverse region in the UK.

Impact of Brexit

In 2019, it was found that almost 20 percent of healthcare professionals in the UK knew at least one colleague considering leaving their job due to Brexit. While twelve percent knew a co-worker, who had already left because of the Brexit situation. Due to the large number of workers from the EU in the NHS, the service could be very vulnerable to Brexit and the potential of many employees leaving due to Brexit.

The Health Survey for England is an annual survey of the health of the population. It has an annually repeating core accompanied by different topic modules each year. The focus of the 2004 report is on the health of minority ethnic groups with an emphasis on cardiovascular disease (CVD). The report also covers the behavioural risk factors associated with CVD such as drinking, smoking and eating habits and health status risk factors such as diabetes, blood pressure, and cholesterol. For children the emphasis is on respiratory health.

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Percent of NHS staff by organisation, staff group, and ethnicity

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In England, discrimination is experienced far more commonly by doctors or dentists with an ethnic background other than white, with roughly 18 percent of medical and dental practitioners of ethnic background saying they experienced discrimination from patients in 2024. Comparatively, only 8 percent of white doctors and dentists said so. The difference between ethnic groups and experiencing discrimination is even more pronounced among all staff groups in the NHS England.

Mid-year (30 June) estimates of the usual resident population for health geographies in England and Wales.

Socio-demographic characteristics of 1,964,726 patients at first contact with the NHS 111 service.

In 2025, roughly 395 thousand doctors were registered in the United Kingdom (UK). Of these, around 180 thousand were white, while the largest ethnicity of UK doctors other than white was Asian or Asian British. Some 129 thousand doctors reported so. This is unsurprising considering the most common foreign country of medical qualification is India, followed by Pakistan. As of 2024, there were more doctors of ethnic minorities than white doctors in the UK.

PIONEER: The impact of ethnicity and multi-morbidity on COVID-related outcomes; a primary care supplemented hospitalised dataset Dataset number 3.0

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was identified in January 2020. Currently, there have been more than 65million cases and more than 1.5 million deaths worldwide. Some individuals experience severe manifestations of infection, including viral pneumonia, adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and death. Evidence suggests that older patients, those from some ethnic minority groups and those with multiple long-term health conditions have worse outcomes. This secondary care COVID dataset contains granular demographic and morbidity data, supplemented from primary care records, to add to the understanding of patient factors on disease outcomes.

PIONEER geography The West Midlands (WM) has a population of 5.9 million & includes a diverse ethnic & socio-economic mix. There is a higher than average percentage of minority ethnic groups. WM has a large number of elderly residents but is the youngest population in the UK. Each day >100,000 people are treated in hospital, see their GP or are cared for by the NHS. The West Midlands was one of the hardest hit regions for COVID admissions in both wave 1 and 2.

EHR. University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England, providing direct acute services & specialist care across four hospital sites, with 2.2 million patient episodes per year, 2750 beds & 100 ITU beds. UHB runs a fully electronic healthcare record (EHR) (PICS; Birmingham Systems), a shared primary & secondary care record (Your Care Connected) & a patient portal “My Health”. UHB has cared for >5000 COVID admissions to date.

Scope: All COVID swab confirmed hospitalised patients to UHB from January – May 2020. The dataset includes highly granular patient demographics & co-morbidities taken from ICD-10 & SNOMED-CT codes but also primary care records and clinic letters. Serial, structured data pertaining to care process (timings, staff grades, specialty review, wards), presenting complaint, acuity, all physiology readings (pulse, blood pressure, respiratory rate, oxygen saturations), all blood results, microbiology, all prescribed & administered treatments (fluids, antibiotics, inotropes, vasopressors, organ support), all outcomes. Linked images available (radiographs, CT, MRI, ultrasound).

Available supplementary data: Health data preceding and following admission event. Matched “non-COVID” controls; ambulance, 111, 999 data, synthetic data.

Available supplementary support: Analytics, Model build, validation & refinement; A.I.; Data partner support for ETL (extract, transform & load) process, Clinical expertise, Patient & end-user access, Purchaser access, Regulatory requirements, Data-driven trials, “fast screen” services.

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The Health Survey for England (HSE) is a series of surveys designed to monitor trends in the nation's health. It was commissioned by NHS Digital and carried out by the Joint Health Surveys Unit of the National Centre for Social Research and the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London.
The aims of the HSE series are:

• to provide annual data about the nation’s health;
• to estimate the proportion of people in England with specified health conditions;
• to estimate the prevalence of certain risk factors associated with these conditions;
• to examine differences between population subgroups in their likelihood of having specific conditions or risk factors;
• to assess the frequency with which particular combinations of risk factors are found, and which groups these combinations most commonly occur;
• to monitor progress towards selected health targets
• since 1995, to measure the height of children at different ages, replacing the National Study of Health and Growth;
• since 1995, monitor the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children.

The survey includes a number of core questions every year but also focuses on different health issues at each wave. Topics are revisited at appropriate intervals in order to monitor change.

Further information about the series may be found on the NHS Digital Health Survey for England; health, social care and lifestyles webpage, the NatCen Social Research NatCen Health Survey for England webpage and the University College London Health and Social Surveys Research Group UCL Health Survey for England webpage.

Changes to the HSE from 2015:
Users should note that from 2015 survey onwards, only the individual data file is available under standard End User Licence (EUL). The household data file is now only included in the Special Licence (SL) version, released from 2015 onwards. In addition, the SL individual file contains all the variables included in the HSE EUL dataset, plus others, including variables removed from the EUL version after the NHS Digital disclosure review. The SL HSE is subject to more restrictive access conditions than the EUL version (see Access information). Users are advised to obtain the EUL version to see if it meets their needs before considering an application for the SL version.

COVID-19 and the HSE:
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the HSE 2020 survey was stopped in March 2020 and never re-started. There was no publication that year. The survey resumed in 2021, albeit with an amended methodology. The full HSE resumed in 2022, with an extended fieldwork period. Due to this, the decision was taken not to progress with the 2023 survey, to maximise the 2022 survey response and enable more robust reporting of data. See the NHS Digital Health Survey for England - Health, social care and lifestyles webpage for more details.

For the fourth edition (April 2010), three new children's Body Mass Index (BMI) variables have been added to the general population and ethnic boost data files (bmicat1, bmicat2, bmicat3). Further information is available in the documentation and on the Information Centre for Health and Social Care Health Survey for England web page.

Main Topics:

For informants from the specified minority ethnic groups (whether in the general population or the ethnic boost sample), the coverage of the 1999 survey was similar to that for 1998 (SN:4150). The special topics included cardiovascular disease (CVD) for adults and asthma for children. Other topics covered included physical activity, eating habits, psychosocial health, social support, religion and cultural identity, as well as the 'core' topics which are repeated every year: smoking, alcohol consumption, general health, prescribed medication and use of services. For the first time in the Health Survey, informants aged 35 and over had an electrocardiographic measurement (ECG) and (among a sub-sample) a fasting blood sample was taken which was analysed for tricglycerides, LDL-cholesterol and glucose. For each child aged 4-15, parents were asked to complete the Strengths and Difficulties (SDQ) Questionnaire.

Informants in the general population sample, unless they were members of the specified minority ethnic groups, were given a short version of the questionnaire covering only the core topics. They did not have the follow-up nurse visit, except for a small sub-sample selected to provide comparisons with minority ethnic groups in respect of measurements not previously employed on the Health Survey, for which therefore earlier reports could not provide comparative data.

Some administrative data and some geographic identifiers have been left out of the dataset.

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Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Health Survey for England (HSE) is a series of surveys designed to monitor trends in the nation's health. It was commissioned by NHS Digital and carried out by the Joint Health Surveys Unit of the National Centre for Social Research and the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London.The aims of the HSE series are:to provide annual data about the nation’s health;to estimate the proportion of people in England with specified health conditions;to estimate the prevalence of certain risk factors associated with these conditions;to examine differences between population subgroups in their likelihood of having specific conditions or risk factors;to assess the frequency with which particular combinations of risk factors are found, and which groups these combinations most commonly occur;to monitor progress towards selected health targetssince 1995, to measure the height of children at different ages, replacing the National Study of Health and Growth;since 1995, monitor the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children.The survey includes a number of core questions every year but also focuses on different health issues at each wave. Topics are revisited at appropriate intervals in order to monitor change. Further information about the series may be found on the NHS Digital Health Survey for England; health, social care and lifestyles webpage, the NatCen Social Research NatCen Health Survey for England webpage and the University College London Health and Social Surveys Research Group UCL Health Survey for England webpage. Changes to the HSE from 2015:Users should note that from 2015 survey onwards, only the individual data file is available under standard End User Licence (EUL). The household data file is now only included in the Special Licence (SL) version, released from 2015 onwards. In addition, the SL individual file contains all the variables included in the HSE EUL dataset, plus others, including variables removed from the EUL version after the NHS Digital disclosure review. The SL HSE is subject to more restrictive access conditions than the EUL version (see Access information). Users are advised to obtain the EUL version to see if it meets their needs before considering an application for the SL version. The Health Survey for England, 2004 (HSE 2004) was designed to provide data at both national and regional level about the population living in private households in England. The sample design of the 2004 survey had two parts: a general population sample that followed the same pattern as in previous years and a minority ethnic 'boost' sample (for the groups covered, see above). The general population sample was half the size of the usual sample. Up to ten adults and up to two children in each household were interviewed, and a nurse visit arranged for those participants in minority ethnic groups who consented. For the ethnic boost sample, all sampled addresses were fully screened and only informants from the specified minority ethnic groups were eligible for inclusion in the survey. Among these, up to four adults and three children were selected for interview. For informants from the specified minority ethnic groups (whether identified in the general population sample or the minority ethnic sample), an interview with each eligible person was followed by a nurse visit. Information was obtained directly from persons aged 13 and over. Information about children under 13 was obtained from a parent with the child present. The survey was conducted throughout the year to take into consideration seasonal differences. For the second edition (April 2010), three new children's Body Mass Index (BMI) variables have been added to the general population and ethnic boost data files (bmicat1, bmicat2, bmicat3). The original variables (bmicut, bmicut2, bmicut3) are unreliable and should not be used. Further information is available in the documentation and on the Information Centre for Health and Social Care Health Survey for England web page. Main Topics: The main focus of HSE 2004 for adults from minority ethnic backgrounds was cardiovascular disease (CVD) and related risk factors. In addition to the core HSE topics, a module on complementary therapies and alternative medicine was also included in the main individual questionnaire. At the nurse visit, questions were asked about prescribed medication, vitamin supplements and nicotine replacements. The nurse took the blood pressure of those aged five and over, measured lung function of those aged 7-15, and made waist and hip measurements for those aged 11 and over. Saliva samples were collected from 4-15 year olds and blood samples from those aged 11 and over, including fasting blood from those aged 16 and over. Blood and saliva samples were sent to a laboratory for analysis. Informants in the general population sample, unless they were members of the specified minority ethnic groups, were given a shortened version of the questionnaire covering core topics only. Standard MeasuresGeneral Health Questionnaire (GHQ12)EQ-5D Health State Multi-stage stratified random sample Face-to-face interview Self-completion Clinical measurements Physical measurements CAPI 2005 ACCIDENTS ACUPUNCTURE AGE ALCOHOL USE ALCOHOLIC DRINKS ANTHROPOMETRIC DATA ANXIETY ASIANS ATTITUDES BEDROOMS BLACK PEOPLE CARDIOVASCULAR DISE... CHILDREN CHIROPRACTIC CHRONIC ILLNESS CLINICAL TESTS AND ... CLUBS COMMUNITIES COMPLEMENTARY THERA... CONCENTRATION CONFECTIONERY CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES COOKING CULTURAL IDENTITY CULTURAL LIFE CYCLING DAIRY PRODUCTS DEBILITATIVE ILLNESS DEPRESSION DIABETES DIET AND EXERCISE DISABILITIES ECONOMIC ACTIVITY EDIBLE FATS EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND EMOTIONAL STATES EMPLOYEES EMPLOYMENT EMPLOYMENT HISTORY ENGLISH LANGUAGE ETHNIC GROUPS ETHNIC MINORITIES EXERCISE PHYSICAL A... England FAMILIES FATHERS FOLK MEDICINE FOOD FRIENDS FRUIT FURNISHED ACCOMMODA... GARDENING GENDER General health and ... HAPPINESS HEADS OF HOUSEHOLD HEALTH HEALTH ADVICE HEALTH CONSULTATIONS HEALTH PROFESSIONALS HEALTH SERVICES HEART DISEASES HEIGHT PHYSIOLOGY HERBAL MEDICINE HOMEOPATHY HORMONE REPLACEMENT... HOSPITAL OUTPATIENT... HOSPITALIZATION HOURS OF WORK HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLDS HOUSEWORK HOUSING TENURE HUMAN SETTLEMENT HYPNOTHERAPY Health care service... ILL HEALTH INDUSTRIES INFANTS INJURIES JOB HUNTING LANDLORDS LANGUAGES LEGUMES LOCAL COMMUNITY FAC... MARITAL STATUS MEAT MEDICAL DIETS MEDICAL PRESCRIPTIONS MEDICINAL DRUGS MEDITATION MEMBERSHIP MENSTRUATION MENTAL HEALTH MILK MOTHERS MOTOR PROCESSES MOTOR VEHICLES MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM NATIONAL BACKGROUND NEIGHBOURS NURSES OCCUPATIONAL QUALIF... ORGANIZATIONS OSTEOPATHY PAIN PARENT RESPONSIBILITY PASSIVE SMOKING PERSONAL PROTECTIVE... PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES PHYSICIANS PLACE OF BIRTH PREGNANCY PRESERVED FOODS QUALIFICATIONS REFLEXOLOGY RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION RENTED ACCOMMODATION RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY RESPIRATORY TRACT D... SAFETY EQUIPMENT SALT SAVOURY SNACKS SELF EMPLOYED SELF ESTEEM SMOKING SMOKING CESSATION SOCIAL CLASS SOCIAL NETWORKS SOCIAL PARTICIPATION SOCIAL SECURITY BEN... SOCIAL SUPPORT SOCIO ECONOMIC STATUS SPORT STRESS PSYCHOLOGICAL SUPERVISORY STATUS SURGERY TIED HOUSING TOBACCO TOP MANAGEMENT TRUST UNFURNISHED ACCOMMO... VASCULAR DISEASES VEGETABLES VITAMINS WALKING WEIGHT PHYSIOLOGY YOUTH

The CPRD Ethnicity Records are comprised of a single derived ethnicity category for each patient in CPRD GOLD. The CPRD Ethnicity Records draw ethnicity data from the primary care databases and, for linkage eligible patients, Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) datasets.

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Access to community mental health services by BME groups, crude rates per 100,000 population. The next release date for this indicator is to be confirmed. Legacy unique identifier: P01835

The most frequent reasons for calling NHS 111 within each of 3,579,786 ‘Flows’.