The link to join the lecture is below:

https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/835a776872904344a17e9d402b96529f

Dear Colleagues,

I am delighted to invite you to attend the 2020 ScHARR Pemberton Lecture. This year’s speaker is Yvonne Coghill.

Yvonne commenced nurse training at Central Middlesex Hospital in 1977, qualified as a general nurse in 1980 and then went on to qualify in mental health nursing and health visiting. In 1986 she secured her first NHS management job and has since held a number of operational and strategic leadership posts.

Yvonne is currently the Director of workforce race equality, NHS London, prior to which she was the Director for the Workforce Race Equality Implementation Team in NHS England/Improvement. She is a member of faculty at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in the United States where she helped develop their inclusion strategy. Yvonne has delivered lectures on inclusion and diversity at Harvard University in Cambridge Massachusetts and the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. She continues to work closely with world expert on health and race Professor D. Williams, of Harvard University School of Public Health.

In 2012 Yvonne was appointed a Magistrate to the North London bench. She has been voted by colleagues in the NHS as one of the top 50 most inspirational women, one of the top 50 most inspirational nurse leaders and one of the top 50 BME pioneers and in December 2017 she was included in the HSJ top 100 influential leaders list. Yvonne was awarded an OBE for services to healthcare in 2010 and was appointed to the position of Director for WRES implementation in June 2015. In 2018 Yvonne was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal College of Nursing, a CBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list, an honorary fellowship from Kings College University, honorary doctorates from The Middlesex and Buckinghamshire Universities, voted one of the top 70 most inspirational nurses in the NHS over the last 70 years and became Deputy President of the RCN in January 2019. Yvonne was also voted one of the top 50 BME leaders in 2020.

The lecture will take place on Wednesday 11th November 2020, 15:00-16:30 via BlackBoard Collaborate.

The link to join the lecture is below:

https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/835a776872904344a17e9d402b96529f

Yvonne’s abstract explains further:

Our NHS is one of the biggest and in England, one of the best-loved organisations in the country. The English NHS has 1.4 million members of staff, 20% of whom are from non-white backgrounds and many of these people work on the front line, as Doctors, nurses as well as administrative and hospitality staff, indeed it has been acknowledged that without staff from overseas the NHS would all but grind to a halt.

The importance of ensuring that all staff, regardless of background are valued and appreciated and encouraged to be the best they can be, should not be underestimated, because the evidence is that a valued and motivated workforce delivers high quality patient care, a safer service and leaves patients more satisfied. This talk will focus on the challenges faced by the NHS in making sure that it adheres to the public sector equality duty of ensuing we promote equality and are seen as a beacon of best practice in this area. Please feel free to share this invitation with colleagues external to the University.

Warm Regards,

Professor John E Brazier

Dean of the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR)

The University of Sheffield

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ScHARR 2020 Pemberton Lecture : Yvonne Coghill - Race Equality and the NHS