Foreign doctors are revealed to be behind 60% of all sex assaults on patients - but NHS wants fewer of them taken to disciplinary hearings
They accounted for 23 of 38 proven incidents in the past three years, according to figures obtained by The Mail on Sunday. Allegations include indecent behaviour, sexual assault and even rape.
‘It is not acceptable that if you come from some backgrounds, you are more likely to enter the formal disciplinary process, stay in it longer and have more career-limiting outcomes. We must change this and quickly.’
it suggested not enough was being done to help BME doctors, with some feeling ‘isolated’ or as if they were ‘treated as outsiders
Now I don't for a second want to raise nasty racial prejudices, but if these are PROVEN cases - shouldn't the emphasis be on making sure ALL offenders are prosecuted, and patients thoroughly protected, not on the careers of the poor doctors, whatever their ethnicity?
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