Don't Beg to the Racist NHS So I see the British authorities have started to hold interviews in Kolkatta India. Apparently, there is a junior doctor shortage in the United Kingdom. The Times of India also reported it. The problem with an ex communist influenced West Bengal is that they have this aged view that England is the land of golden opportunity. Of course, few research the implications of coming to an alien unfriendly country like the UK. We have NHS doctors like Ferret Fancier insulting foreign doctors each time he gets the opportunity. More recently, Daniel Ubani has provided miles of ammunition for the UK system to demonise all foreign doctors to the extent their English and their competence has come under intense scrutiny. No criticism is made of one of their own serial diamorphine administrators who serially ended the lives of numerous patients. Indeed, Oxford qualified British English perfect English speaker Barton is responsible for ending the lives of more patients than all the foreign doctors put together.
Nevertheless, for any Indian doctor who considers coming to the UK, they should remember the following issues
1. There are extensive documentation and reports to establish the fact that racism is flourishing in the United Kingdom. Here is the Guardian link. The failures of race equality duties are shown here.
2. The king of institutional racism, the General Medical Council, a regulatory body that all foreign doctors have to register with, continued with its demonisation of foreign doctors. This band wagon was continued by the Health Select Committee.
3. The recent statistics show that foreign doctors were 60 percent more likely to be struck off than British trained doctors. I wrote about the GMC's trail of behaviour here.
Lastly, I have one comment to make, having constructively dismissed a number of good doctors from the NHS [ me included], I find it interesting that the Department of Health are now persuading Bengali doctors to come to the UK implying that it is some kind of land of hope and glory. Smell the roses doctors, this land ain't a land of hope and glory. It is a land where you will be degraded, stripped of your integrity and the shirt on your back and sent back to India. If the current Bengali doctors have any doubt about this, you should just take a look at the manner in which the UK treated the last set of foreign doctors who were left on the street to beg.
Who can forget the tragedy of this doctor who decided to hang himself.
In 2006, the headline detailed the plight of jobless foreign doctors stripped of everything.
This situation should never be forgiven. I always say this because so many foreign doctors are so naive about the maliciousness of the NHS. They use and abuse their staff and care nothing if doctors hang themselves at the end of it. If that happens, all the NHS staff and doctors would say is "Ah but he was unstable anyway". There is no kindness in the National Health Service. If there is a scapegoat, it will always be the foreign doctor who ends up at the GMC facing the music. The GMC in turn has no scruples about ruining doctors careers. Our collective advice would be to use your talents and stay in West Bengal. The people need you there. The population in the UK and the doctors here are not ready for any further foreign doctors. Slave labour is something no one should degrade themselves into doing. The NHS in this country is not one for being honest or making promises they will keep. They are in Bengal to hire unassuming young innocent doctors with golden promises to do their slave labour. No doctor in their right mind should be employed by an organisation who has no respect for anyone.
2. The king of institutional racism, the General Medical Council, a regulatory body that all foreign doctors have to register with, continued with its demonisation of foreign doctors. This band wagon was continued by the Health Select Committee.
3. The recent statistics show that foreign doctors were 60 percent more likely to be struck off than British trained doctors. I wrote about the GMC's trail of behaviour here.
Lastly, I have one comment to make, having constructively dismissed a number of good doctors from the NHS [ me included], I find it interesting that the Department of Health are now persuading Bengali doctors to come to the UK implying that it is some kind of land of hope and glory. Smell the roses doctors, this land ain't a land of hope and glory. It is a land where you will be degraded, stripped of your integrity and the shirt on your back and sent back to India. If the current Bengali doctors have any doubt about this, you should just take a look at the manner in which the UK treated the last set of foreign doctors who were left on the street to beg.
Who can forget the tragedy of this doctor who decided to hang himself.
"Dr Yousaf was found hanged in a room above his friend's surgery last month. Although he left no note, beside him was a letter from immigration officials saying there would be no further extensions on his visa."
In 2006, the headline detailed the plight of jobless foreign doctors stripped of everything.
"Standing in the courtyard of the Sri Mahalakshmi Hindu temple in east London, a dozen jobless doctors are eating dhal, rice and potatoes off paper plates.Wrapped against the cold in anoraks and sweaters, they come here each evening when the temple serves free food. They eat in the gloom before slipping away to damp, squalid lodgings where many sleep three to a room.
"They are among thousands of overseas doctors who have flocked to Britain in the past five years in response to the NHS's global appeal for more staff. But instead of finding hospitals ready to welcome them, they face unemployment, poverty and discrimination"
This situation should never be forgiven. I always say this because so many foreign doctors are so naive about the maliciousness of the NHS. They use and abuse their staff and care nothing if doctors hang themselves at the end of it. If that happens, all the NHS staff and doctors would say is "Ah but he was unstable anyway". There is no kindness in the National Health Service. If there is a scapegoat, it will always be the foreign doctor who ends up at the GMC facing the music. The GMC in turn has no scruples about ruining doctors careers. Our collective advice would be to use your talents and stay in West Bengal. The people need you there. The population in the UK and the doctors here are not ready for any further foreign doctors. Slave labour is something no one should degrade themselves into doing. The NHS in this country is not one for being honest or making promises they will keep. They are in Bengal to hire unassuming young innocent doctors with golden promises to do their slave labour. No doctor in their right mind should be employed by an organisation who has no respect for anyone.
2 comments:
The immediate past CMO himself confirmed in his annual report 2007
http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/@dh/@en/documents/digitalasset/dh_086183.pdf
the higher rates of racism among doctors from Asian and black ethnic minorities.
Unless the Governnment make apropriate changes in law e.g, '
tackling Medical and Organized Mobbing' such as stopping Chief Police Office to include unfounded allegations in Enhanced CRB disclosure under 'other relevant information' section , against whistleblowers, there will always be shortage of doctors.
GMC itself state in its own following guidelines,
http://www.gmc-uk.org/guidance/ethical_guidance/raising_concerns.asp
'Obstacles to reporting
4. You may be reluctant to report concerns for a variety of reasons including, for example because you fear that this may cause problems for colleagues, adversely affect working relationships, have a negative impact on your career or result in a complaint about you. If you are hesitating about reporting a concern for these reasons, you should bear in mind that:
your duty to put patients' interests first and act to protect them must override personal and professional loyalties'
Raising a concern
'8. Be clear, honest and objective about the reason for your concern. Acknowledge any personal grievance that may arise from the situation, but focus on the issue of patient safety.'
the obstacles and the impact a doctor may have on his career and advise him to face any grievance which may arise as a consequence,but unfortunately, when a complaint is made against a doctor, especially if he is an overseas whistleblower, he is left on his own and almost always his career is ruined by mob culture.
I suggest its time to change culture.
I am not sure racism is flourishing, for certain it is not as bad as it was say 20 years ago. As for Indian doctors coming to the UK in my opinion Indian doctors are the best.
Gavin
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