Resource Library

Our Inclusive Language Guide is a practical resource designed to help colleagues promote openness and understanding throughout our diverse workforce and communities. By maintaining patient safety and celebrating cultural diversity, this guide supports improved communication and prevents misunderstandings. It encourages honest dialogue to ensure inclusivity in all interactions.

The Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) is a mandatory framework used by NHS organizations and healthcare providers in England to compare the career and workplace experiences of Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) staff with those of white staff.

This page signposts you to key learning resources, tools and guidance that will help you define what is meant by ’culture’ and to see how it impacts a person’s values, beliefs, behaviours and decision making about their health.

This project has been created with the purpose of helping health and social care staff tackle racism in their workplaces. Whether you’re a Black or Asian staff member looking for support, or a white colleague who wants to know how to be an ally, we have collated resources to assist in ending racism and racist incidents in health and social care settings.

This video was self-funded; not receiving any funding from any public bodies, the NHS, or universities.

Refugee and Migrant Health Toolkit (the Toolkit) developed by WHO’s Health and Migration Programme is a comprehensive, operational and user-friendly source of information, guidance and tools supporting implementation of health and migration related activities including the Global action plan: promoting the health of refugees and migrants 2019–2030 (GAP), Regional Action Plans and other initiatives having similar goals.

Do you treat patients who are refugees or asylum seekers? Find out more about their specific health needs and how to overcome common barriers.

The Queen's Institute of Community Nursing supports Community Nurses to achieve outsanding levels of care for people experiencing homelessness and others who may experience barriers to accessing healthcare.

Shortlisted for a Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) Award 2026, the film highlights the value of lived experience in improving research and care.

The Equality Act (2010) states all organisations including health and social care, such as hospitals and GP surgeries must take steps to remove the barriers individuals face because of disability.

The NHS must make it as easy for disabled people to use health services as it is for people who are not disabled.

SignHealth, the Deaf Health Charity, has produced a series of useful videos in British Sign Language, covering topics including cancer, chemotherapy, surgery and more.

A person with a learning disability is more likely to develop dementia, and it may get worse quicker than someone without a learning disability. However, for people with more complex learning disabilities, the initial symptoms are likely to be less obvious.