How systemic racism affects general practice: Covid and the Black Lives Matter movement have shone a light on the ivory towers in general practice.

It must also not be forgotten that general practice is ahead of the curve in terms of BAME people in leadership positions, while a third of GPs are from BAME backgrounds. The GMC: complaints against BAME doctors more likely to escalate GMC data obtained by Pulse show, perhaps surprisingly, that UKeducated white doctors are just as likely to face a complaint as non-white colleagues. 4 The historical recruitment drive cited by Roger Kline could also explain why overseas-trained GPs ended up in hard-to-recruit regions around 30 years ago, but UK-trained BAME GPs were often also brought up in those communities, and tended to be more likely to settle and practise there than GPs from elsewhere. [Extracted from the article]