Racism in the NHS: let BMA report be last needed so we can return to tackling NHS crisis

The BMA’s report Delivering Racial Equality in Medicine is the most comprehensive such account in its 190 year history.1 It makes for grim reading,23 showing the effect of racism on doctors and ultimately on patient care. But it also tackles how NHS bosses and the government could win over almost 40% of NHS doctors. That would be good news at any time, but more so now with the dire workforce crisis in the NHS.The survey adds to previous reports, including that of the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO) on differential attainment, which has blighted the lives of many migrant doctors. The misery of general practice trainees sitting membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners examinations prompted BAPIO’s legal challenge against the college and the General Medical Council in 2014.4 As Mr Justice Mitting commented, we lost the legal victory but achieved a moral success.4 As a…
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