UK’s NHS Trust Invites White Staff to Take £250 Course on Becoming ‘Disruptors’ of Racism
2nd November 2026
An NHS hospital group in southwest England has pitched its staff a £250 anti-racism course meant for “individuals who are white and live in the world as white people,” as part of its Black History Month offerings.
The course, From Allies to Disruptors, is run by the Birmingham equality charity brap and consists of six half-day online workshops running from November until April 2027. It appeared in a staff newsletter sent to employees of Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Swindon, The Telegraph reported. The newsletter came from the equality, diversity and inclusion team at the Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW) Hospitals Group, which also runs the hospitals in Bath and Salisbury.
“By understanding more about racialised dynamics, the programme will help you become a more confident disruptor of racism,” the newsletter says. The course’s tagline says it “invites you to disrupt injustice – not just around you, but within you.” It is aimed at NHS leaders but open to anyone interested.
I don’t suppose they mean anti-white racism.