Why should the NHS employ any diversity officers?

Wes Streeting is offended by NHS staff promoting ‘anti-whiteness’ – as should any taxpayer who has not succumbed to the racist ideology of critical race theory. A social media post from a counselling psychologist with the East London NHS Foundation Trust sought an assistant on a year-long placement, describing herself as someone ‘who integrates anti whiteness/ anti racist praxis into supervision and approaches to clinical work.’

Streeting said, addressing a Macmillan Cancer Support event: ‘There are some really daft things being done in the name of equality, diversity and inclusion which undermine the cause… the ideological hobby horses have to go.’ But he still thinks that DEI jobs should still exist in the NHS, citing differential rates of cancer among black people as a reason. He should remember the words of Tony Blair who complained of ‘scars on my back’ from trying to reform the NHS but who, in the end, said he wished he had gone much further.