It’s time to act on racism in the NHS 

Professor Mala Rao, Ethnicity and Health Unit Director, and Victor Adebowale incoming chair, NHS Confederation, questions how problems sometimes raised decades ago around Racism In Medicine persist?

Ethnic minority doctors and patients still face too many injustices in the NHS. The BMJ’s special issue on racism in medicine maps some of them and asks how they might be overcome, from the fivefold higher maternal mortality among black women than among white women in the UK to the gap in performance between white and ethnic minority students and doctors and the increased likelihood of disciplinary procedures against ethnic minority doctors.

Read Professor Mala Rao and Victor Adebowale's call for action on racism in medicine.