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At least 20 organisations and individuals who were listed as stakeholders in the government’s race disparity commission have distanced themselves from the report and its findings.
The report by the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, released at the end of March, concluded that while racism and racial injustice still exist, geography, family influence, socioeconomic background, culture and religion all have a greater impact on life chances.
It was widely condemned by MPs, unions and equality campaigners as “divisive” and a missed opportunity for systematic change.
The 258-page report notes that the commission heard evidence from a number of organisations and individuals during the course of its work and it thanked them for their participation in an appendix.
Call for urgent reform as GMC uses appeal powers 14 times since Bawa-Garba case
Healthcare leaders have urged the government to speed up plans to halt GMC appeals against fitness to practice decisions - warning the regulator has used its powers more than a dozen times since its controversial appeal in the case of Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba.
by Nick Bostock
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Top NHS officials have warned that UK immigration policy will lead to another Windrush scandal as rising numbers of foreign senior doctors are being forced to quit their jobs. Senior clinicians are being forced to leave the UK and return home to care for parents who are prohibited from coming to Britain by strict immigration rules.
Despite the NHS being under heavy strain amid the coronavirus pandemic, consultants, GPs and health workers told iNews that they are leaving the UK because of ‘harsh and inhumane’ immigration rules that affect adult dependent relatives (ADRs).
Earlier this month, Workpermit.com reported how the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO) and five other organisations, had appealed to UK Home Secretary, Priti Patel, to change the rules that apply to ADRs. However, the government has so far been unmoved while the number of health professionals leaving continues to rise.
Why Dr Subodh Dave, dean-elect of Royal College of Psychiatrists, champions the cause of Indian origin students in the UK
Why Dr Subodh Dave, dean-elect of Royal College of Psychiatrists, champions the cause of Indian origin students in the UK
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Dr Dave has also been closely associated with dealing with the problem of institutional racism within the NHS.
The issue of Indians and people of Indian origin in the United Kingdom facing racism was highlighted in the Upper House of the Indian Parliament on Monday, when the External Affairs Minister, S Jaishankar, said that India would take up concerns over racism and cyberbullying with the UK, when required. The minister was referring to the incident of Rashmi Samant, an Indian student at the University of Oxford, who was allegedly forced to resign as president of the hallowed institution’s students union within five days of her appointment. Samant was called out f
India was the first country to respond within an hour when WHO declared Covid-19 a pandemic. Planning started on January 8 and guidelines were drafted by 17th. Massive surveillance started on the same day with meticulous contact tracing unparalleled in the world, Vardhan said.