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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rebecca Thomas

New racism targets introduced for hospitals just as NHS scraps top race roles

The Independent

The NHS is to bring in new racial equality targets, but insiders fear hospital trusts will not be held to account because specialist roles set up to tackle racism are facing the axe.

A leaked document has revealed that NHS England will require trusts to gather data on how diverse their hospital hiring panels are, and they will be measured on the rates of General Medical Council (GMC) misconduct referrals of Black and minority ethnic doctors compared with those of white staff.

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