Theodore Dalrymple

Global Warning | 19 July 2008

Theodore Dalrymple delivers a global warning

issue 19 July 2008

These things are sent to try us: I’m speaking now of circular letters from the General Medical Council.

I recently received a second such letter about the Council’s Ethnicity Census from the president of the Council:

Toward the end of 2007, I wrote asking for your help with an important project designed to help us to understand better the diversity of doctors registered with the GMC. We were hugely encouraged by the response we received and now have ethnicity data for over 60% of all registered doctors in the UK. To complete the picture we still need your support and I would be grateful if you would provide the information we seek.

What is the purpose of the GMC’s racialist project?

We are committed to ensuring that our processes and procedures are fair, objective, transparent and free from unlawful discrimination… That is why we need data for as high a proportion of registered doctors as possible.

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