A survey carried out by the British Medical Association has revealed that at least 75 percent of ethnic minority doctors have experienced racism on more than one occasion in the last two years.
The survey was opened to all UK doctors and saw more than 2,000 responses from those who specifically work within a medical environment.
A recent study found that white doctors in London were six times more likely to be successful than black applicants when applying for a medical post.
Similarly in an NHS Medical Workforce Race Equality Standard document published in 2020, BME doctors reported a worse experience at work than white doctors.
In an exclusive to the BBC, the survey found that 17.4 percent of ethnic minority doctors said they had regularly faced racism at work.
Dr Chaand Nagpaul, Council Chair, BMA, in an interview with the BBC said: "This is about a moral right for anyone who works for the NHS to be treated fairly”.
Over 70 percent of those who ha experienced racism within the workplace did not report it and 20 percent said it had made them consider leaving their job or has already left their job due to racism within the past two years.
Dr Nikki Kanani, NHS Medical Director of Primary Care said: "While our latest equality report [in 2020] shows that we have made progress in some areas of the NHS, it is completely unacceptable for anyone to experience racism, discrimination or prejudice at work, and NHS organisations should continue to take a zero-tolerance approach to all and any form of discrimination."
"You experience [racism] in every hospital you go [to]. I always felt like we had to do 200 times more to get where we were than our English counterparts."
The survey looked to gain a ‘deeper and more nuances picture oh how racism is perpetrated in the NHS’ by asking respondents about their gender, religion, sexual orientations, disability and more to well establish why racism is happening.
