Is The NHS Treating Black Doctors Fairly? No White Doctor Has Ever Been Convicted Of Negligence?

There has been growing concerns on why only black doctors have one way or the other been convicted of professional negligence,  but their white counterparts have not been convicted of any in decades.


Divaviva111 took a cursory look on why it's that since our blog is on social life, experiences and truths, here's what we discovered.

According to the pulse magazine, the 

GENERAL Medical Council (GMC), the body that registers doctors in the UK, has launched an investigation into the high level of complaints against black and minority ethnic (BAME) doctors compared with white doctors.

The GMC’s action follows the high profile case of Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba. Dr Bawa-Garba, was stripped of her medical licence following the death of Jack Adcock, a six-year-old boy with Down’s Syndrome.

The junior paediatrician was convicted of manslaughter by gross negligence and given a two-year suspended sentence for mistakes which led to Jack Adcock’s “needless death” in 2011.

However, the decision sparked anger and strong criticism of the GMC from medical professionals, with many raising concerns that Dr Bawa-Garba’s case failed to look at the exceptional pressures faced by NHS doctors as well as systemic failings.

But of the nine doctors who have been convicted for gross negligence manslaughter since 2004, seven have been from a BAME background. No white doctor has been convicted for more than a decade.

Dr Doyin Atewologun, faculty member at Queen Mary University of London’s School of Business and Management, said: “We hope, in particular, that this project will help identify best practises from the available evidence and lead to positive changes for practitioners.”