NHS risks losing black and Asian doctors over ‘intolerable’ racism levels – report

The report found 42% of black and 41% of Asian doctors have considered leaving or have left work in the past two years as result of racism. Photograph: Sturti/Getty Images

The NHS is in danger of a mass exodus of black, Asian and minority ethnic doctors due to “persistent” and “intolerable” levels of racism in the workplace, a landmark report warns.

The review by the British Medical Association, one of the most comprehensive of its kind into racism in the medical profession, paints an “alarming” picture of “institutional barriers” to career progression, “dangerously low levels” of reporting of racist incidents and a growing mental health burden on minority ethnic doctors.