Carol To Direct NHS E&D
Last updated: 15/09/2006 - 16:26
NHS Employers - the employers’ organisation for the NHS in England - has appointed Professor Carol Baxter as its new head of equality and diversity.
Professor Baxter came to the UK from Jamaica, in 1970, to train as a nurse, midwife, health visitor and finally as a health promotion specialist. Since then, she has held a number of senior positions in the NHS and higher education sectors. Most recently she has been on secondment to the equality and diversity team at the Department of Health from Middlesex University, where she was Professor of Nursing and Head of the Centre for Nursing and Midwifery Research and Development.
“I strongly believe that equality and diversity should be central to everything the NHS does,” says Professor Baxter. “The NHS is about caring and those who care must be given every support and opportunity to fulfil their potential. NHS Employers will work hard in supporting NHS organisations to excel as places where all staff, whatever their differences, feel valued and have a fair and equitable quality of working life, where we accept the difference between individuals and value the benefits that diversity brings.”
NHS Employers' work programme includes pay negotiations, health and safety, equality and diversity, recruitment and retention, the NHS Pension Scheme review, European and UK employment practice, safer recruitment and doctor disciplinary issues. NHS Employers is part of the NHS Confederation but has its own director, policy board and assembly.
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