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The NHS’s bizarre diversity A to Z

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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 learn. The list, which featured on the NHS website, began with ‘Allyship’, and ran through ‘tone policing’, ‘white supremacy’, and ‘woke’, before finishing at ‘xenophobia’. Mr S couldn’t help but notice though that the glossary appeared to have adopted some rather controversial terms.

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