Partha Kar: It’s time for accountability and discomfort about the NHS’s workforce inequalities

In debates about the challenges facing the NHS, financial difficulties are always front and centre. Now there’s a realisation that workforce issues also pose a real danger. And yet it’s striking that one of the biggest employers on the planet continues to rely on the stopgap measure of asking people from other countries to come and fill the holes in the workforce.The problem with this is its unsustainability in the long term. And as the cohort of “non-local” healthcare workers grows, so do the voices showcasing the unfairness that these workers experience. How do you shut down a huge group talking about how they’re treated worse because of where they trained or their ethnicity? How do you defend the narrative that their training is good enough for lower grade roles—the ward duties no one else does—but not for higher bands and posts?How do you square that circle when datasets in…
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