Wednesday 9 February 2022

Doctors consider high levels of racism in the NHS to be a ‘debilitating’ problem, finds largest survey of racism in medicine

Doctors consider high levels of racism in the NHS to be a ‘debilitating’ problem, finds largest survey of racism in medicine  The BMA has shared interim findings from the Association’s Racism in Medicine survey and these reveal that doctors from all ethnic minority backgrounds consider racism a problem in the medical profession.

With over 2000 responses from doctors and medical students across the UK, the BMA believes the survey to be one of the largest of its kind on the experience of racism in the medical profession and workplace. Just over 90% of Black and Asian respondents, 73% Mixed and 64% of White respondents said racism in the medical profession is an issue.

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