Shilpa Ross

Position: Fellow
Teams: Policy

Shilpa Ross is a Fellow in the Policy team at The King’s Fund and works on a range of health and social care research programmes. Most recently she led the Fund’s research on workforce race inequalities and inclusion in NHS providers. Topics of her other recent reports include the role of volunteers in the NHS, transformational change in health and care and quality improvement in mental health. Before joining the Fund in 2009, Shilpa’s research focused on the resettlement of offenders and substance misuse treatment. She has extensive experience in qualitative research. Shilpa holds a BSc in Psychology and Criminology.

A group of health and care workers from HMT Windrush

Blog

How it started… how it’s going: the experiences of migrants and people from ethnic minority backgrounds working in the NHS

It’s 75 years since HMT Empire Windrush docked in Tilbury. Shilpa Ross considers the experiences of staff from ethnic minority groups in the newly formed NHS and the NHS of today and asks why, in the intervening years, so little has changed.

Commissioned report

Actions to support partnership: Addressing barriers to working with the VCSE sector in integrated care systems

This report provides an overview of the key actions required to tackle barriers and challenges to better partnership working between integrated care systems (ICS) and the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector.

Report

’We’re here and you’re there’: lived experiences of ethnic minority staff in the NHS

Shilpa Ross explores some common experiences from our research into what it means to be an ethnic minority member of staff in the NHS.

Blog

Life in the shadow of the snowy white peaks: race inequalities in the NHS workforce

What is it really like to work in the NHS as a black, Asian or minority ethnic member of staff? Shilpa Ross explores some early findings from The King’s Fund’s research into race inequalities in the health service.

How it started… how it’s going: the experiences of migrants and people from ethnic minority backgrounds working in the NHS

Actions to support partnership: Addressing barriers to working with the VCSE sector in integrated care systems

Strategies to reduce waiting times for elective care

Five leaders, five reflections about public health and the Covid-19 pandemic

Directors of public health and the Covid-19 pandemic: ‘A year like no other’

Passion with no end: where next for our diversity and inclusion work?

Workforce race inequalities and inclusion in NHS providers

A hopeful moment? Addressing race inequalities in the NHS workforce

’We’re here and you’re there’: lived experiences of ethnic minority staff in the NHS

Life in the shadow of the snowy white peaks: race inequalities in the NHS workforce