NHS Curse or Cure?

This is NOT an NHS event.
This is a community-led, NGO-driven conference where lived experience speaks first — and systems are invited to listen.

For too long, conversations about health equity have happened about Black and Brown communities, rather than with them. This event flips the script.

NHS leaders, clinicians, commissioners, policy-makers, and partners are invited — not to lead — but to listen, reflect, and engage with what communities and NGOs are saying.

This is a space for truth, accountability, courage, and change.

Black and Brown communities continue to experience:

• Avoidable illness and premature death
• Delayed diagnosis and unequal treatment
• Structural bias embedded in systems and practice
• Deep mistrust born from lived experience

Despite policy, pledges, and programmes, too many voices remain unheard.

This conference centres those voices.

No defensiveness.
No tokenism.
No performative equity.

Just honest, community-led truth-telling and a demand for better.

• Communities and NGOs speak openly about lived experience
• Health professionals hear directly from those most affected
• Difficult conversations are held with respect and integrity
• Evidence, insight, and solutions are shared
• Accountability begins with listening

This is not about blame.
It is about responsibility.

Dr Chidi Ngwaba
Award-winning Health & Wellness Expert | Media Medic & Commentator for Sky News and Good Morning Britain. Known for challenging medical orthodoxy and empowering communities to reclaim their health.

• Ruth South – CEO & Founder of CARE | Co-Author, AKIP Police Stop & Search
• Imran Mahmood – CAMHS Service Development Lead (Health Equity & Community Participation)
• Dr Jacquie Halliday-Bell – MBChB, FFOM, MD and Co-author of 100 Black British Doctors
• Dr Matilda Chongwa – Chief Executive Director, Global Diabetes Initiatives
• Claudette Mitchell OBE – Founder Director, Sickle Cell Care & Social Activity
• Junior Hemans – Chair, Prostate Cancer UK Black Men’s Health Advisory Group
• Val Orr – Val Orr -Health Consultant, Women’s Health and Director of VEO Wellness Services

• Elsie Gayle – Midwife and Honorary Fellow, The University of Wolverhampton

• Olivia Horgan – Health Inequalities Strategy & Delivery Manager (PCREF)Patient and Carers Race Equality Framework
• Alicia Spence – Director of ACCI -African Caribbean Community Initiative, Mental Health Service

• Winston Lindsay – Wellbeing Social Worker & Director

Hosts:
Adrian Roberts and Esther Douglas

Special Contribution:
Poetry by Selina Toussaint-Peterson — lived experience, spoken without apology.

✔️ Speakers’ panel with audience Q&A
✔️ FREE blood pressure and diabetes checks (pre-booking required, email [email protected])
✔️ Wellbeing and health advice
✔️ Book sales and promotional stalls
✔️ Space for connection, reflection, and learning

• Community organisations and NGOs
• Carers
• Out-patients
• People with lived experience
• Activists and advocates
• Social Workers
• NHS staff, leaders, and commissioners ready to listen
• Policy-makers and decision-makers
• Researchers, students, and allies

Health equity cannot be achieved without listening to those most affected by inequality. This community-led conference offers NHS leaders, clinicians, commissioners, and decision-makers a rare opportunity to hear unfiltered lived experience from Black and Brown communities and the NGOs that support them. Attendance is not about visibility or reassurance — it is about accountability, reflection, and learning. Those serious about reducing disparities, rebuilding trust, and delivering equitable care must be willing to listen when communities speak. This event provides that space — openly, honestly, and without defensiveness.

This conference exists because of you, and for you . Too often, decisions about health, care, and services are made without the voices of those most affected. This space is about reclaiming that voice. By attending, you help shape the narrative, challenge harmful systems, and ensure that lived experience leads the conversation. This is a place to be heard, supported, informed, and empowered — to connect with others who understand your journey, to access health advice and checks, and to stand together in demanding fairness, dignity, and equity in healthcare. Your presence matters. Your experience matters. Your voice matters.

If you believe equity starts with listening — this is for you.

📍 Venue:
The Auditorium
University of Wolverhampton – Science Park Technology Centre
Glaisher Drive, Wolverhampton, WV10 9RU

🗓 Date: Monday 30th March 2026
🕘 Registration: 9:30 AM
🕙 Start: 10:00 AM

☕ Onsite café (card only)
🍽 Multiple offsite food outlets
🚗 Onsite parking available

🎟 FREE EVENT – REGISTRATION REQUIRED

If you are a community member, NGO, or advocate — your voice matters.
If you work within the NHS or public systems — your presence matters.
If you care about equity — your action matters.

⚠️ Do not come to speak over communities.
Come to listen.
Come to learn.
Come ready to change.

👉 REGISTER NOW ON EVENTBRITE
⏳ Places are limited. This event will fill.

📧 Enquiries: [email protected]

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Wolverhampton Science Park, 205 Glaisher Drive, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

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