Racism is a “stain on the NHS” and is driving out staff, warns top psychiatrist

Institutional racism in the NHS is harming patients and driving out healthcare workers, and employers are too slow to act against abuse faced by mental health staff, the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ president Adrian James has said.Speaking at the college’s international congress in Liverpool on 10 July, James said, “Institutional racism is rife in society and the NHS is not immune. We see its pernicious effects on colleagues who are leaving the NHS in droves.”James, who is to end his presidential term this week, said that tackling racism is a key part of boosting and retaining the workforce and that the NHS has a “moral, ethical, and legal duty to do much more to stamp out racism in all its forms.” He highlighted unfair ethnic pay gaps, disparities in disciplinary action, and a lack of doctors from ethnic minorities in management positions as examples.Earlier this year, a college survey of…
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