NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s Anti-racism Plan was launched in June 2025. Reflecting our Equality Outcomes (2025 – 2029) and following guidance developed by the Scottish Government, it brings together our existing anti-racism work and our planned new activities in a single document.
The Plan outlines the actions we will take to:
- actively seek out and remove racism and discriminatory practice
- identify the systems and behaviour that are allowing this to happen
- ensure that everyone feels able to bring these to light.
In Year 1 of the Plan, these actions have included the following.
All NHSGGC Directors now have specific anti-racism objectives included in their annual objectives.
Anti-racism elements are included in management training and all staff training provided by the Equality & Human Rights Team explores institutional racism.
There have been significant improvements in gathering ethnicity data, which is used to measure whether our services are meeting the needs of Black & Minority Ethnic (BME) patients. Latest minority ethnic monitoring data for acute appointments and admissions stands at 88.25%. Anti-racism work in Maternity Services has resulted in 99.6% data capture from minority ethnic patients.
A dedicated BME leadership programme for staff completed its third cycle in 2025.
A Mentoring programme for BME Staff was launched in January 2025, and a review took place to identify further opportunities to support career development for BME staff.
Our supported BME Staff Network has a current membership of 500 members.
A comprehensive series of Hate Crime Awareness and Reporting sessions ran across 2025 encouraging and empowering staff the report all incidents.
40 assessments using the Frontline Equality Assessment Tool (FEAT) were completed in Year 1, helping to identify areas where staff need additional support to meet the needs of all patients. This work also helped assess awareness and use of the patient pathway app, ‘Meeting the Needs of BME People’, which supports frontline staff in understanding and responding sensitively to the needs of BME patients.
In Maternity Services, anti-racism training was delivered to management and frontline staff and a range of resources have been produced to better meet the needs of minority ethnic mothers.
Following a series of feedback sessions in Year 1 with members of the BME Network and senior staff, the Coalition of Race Equality and Rights (CRER) made a range of recommendations which have been mapped against the existing Plan.
Our staff and patients with lived experience of racism, as well as other organisations working against racism, will continue to tell us how effectively our actions are helping us achieve our goals.
For a full update on progress, along with proposed actions for 2026 – 2027, see our Year 2 Action Plan.