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NHS: Training

Asked by Mr Richard HoldenConservativeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 12 June 2025UIN 57398

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department provides unconscious bias training; and whether his Department plans to provide unconscious bias training to staff from NHS England when that organisation is abolished.

Answered by Karin Smyth

The Department aligns itself to the Civil Service Equality, Diversity and Inclusion approach to learning and to the use of evidence led interventions. The Department does not provide unconscious bias training to its staff, and there are no current plans to provide unconscious bias training for NHS England staff.

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