GMC reports progress on tackling inequalities in medicine
The GMC has committed to eliminating disproportionate employer referrals to its fitness to practise processes by the end of 2026, with a longer-term ambition to eradicate discrimination, disadvantage and unfairness in medical education and training by 2031.
The number of employers where data suggests disproportionate referrals in relation to a doctor's ethnicity or place of qualification has fallen. The latest figures show 2.4 per cent of employers with evidence of such disproportionality, a 57 per cent reduction on the 5.6 per cent that were in the 2016-20 baseline period.
Caroline Waterfield, director of workforce supply and employment practice at NHS Employers, said:
“No one should come to work in the NHS and experience discrimination – tackling it is a priority for employers and partners in the system.
The work the GMC has been progressing, with employers, is welcome and while progress has been made there is more to do.
NHS Employers will work with the GMC and employers to eliminate disproportionate referrals to the GMC fitness to practise process. It will be critical to ensure that there is a way to sustain the progress made into the future.”
To read more about the report, visit the GMC website.
