NHS ‘treating minority ethnic doctors as outsiders’

NHS ‘treating minority ethnic doctors as outsiders’ Bosses failing to offer support, says report into reasons for excessive disciplinary action

Doctors from ethnic minorities are too often treated as outsiders by their NHS bosses and peers and not given the support they need, according to an investigation into why they are twice as likely to face disciplinary action as white doctors.

A report commissioned by the General Medical Council (GMC), the regulatory body for doctors, talks of “multiple and intricately linked” factors behind the disproportionate number of referrals of doctors from ethnic minorities by their employers. The Guardian