25% of BAME non-executive directors in NHS ‘have seen discrimination’ at work

Some BAME NEDs said board members’ conversations had excluded them and fellow board members had made little effort to engage with them. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

A quarter of Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) non-executive directors of NHS trusts have seen or experienced discrimination in the course of their work, a report reveals.

While almost four out of five (79%) of these BAME non-executives said they challenged such behaviour when they encountered it, only half (50%) said that led to a change of policy or behaviour.