Letters
All NHS consultants must have equal entitlement to awards
| The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below. |
EDITOR
The Department of Health has published a consultation document
on the NHS clinical excellence scheme.1 This highlights the relatively few awards given to some specialties, to female doctors,
and to doctors from ethnic minorities and the disproportionately large
number of awards to honorary or academic consultants. Altogether 9% of
the consultants hold posts as honorary consultants, but they hold 39%
of the awards.1
Although well deserved, these awards were perhaps achieved because of
the greater opportunities that these consultants had and the bias in
favour of academic achievements: even outstanding contributions to
patient care and service to the NHS were considered less worthy of the
higher awards. Discrimination is said to account for the differences
between the sexes and ethnic differences, but, despite statistics
suggesting this, data are inadequate to justify this
conclusion.2 Awards committees were urged to rectify these
discrepancies while still making their nominations entirely on
CiteULike 
Complore 
Connotea 
Del.icio.us 
Digg 
Reddit 
StumbleUpon 
Technorati What's this?
Relevant Article
- Racial discrimination in distinction awards
- A E A Joseph, R H R White, Raman Bedi, Keith Williams, Aneez Esmail, Sam Everington, M Adiseshiah, J R Harper, Jim Boddington, P Kelland, Nigel Dudley, and Peter C Rubin
BMJ 1998 316: 1977.[Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]
Rapid Responses:
Read all Rapid Responses
- Fair and flawed?
- Nigel Dudley
bmj.com, 21 May 2001 [Full text] - How about all NHS doctors must have equal entitlement to awards
- Andrew Burnett
bmj.com, 23 May 2001 [Full text] - Re: How about all NHS doctors must have equal entitlement to awards
- Nigel Dudley
bmj.com, 24 May 2001 [Full text] - Entitlement to awards
- Michael Cushen
bmj.com, 31 May 2001 [Full text]
This Article
- Full text
- Respond to this article
- Read responses to this article
- Alert me when this article is cited
- Alert me when responses are posted
- Alert me when a correction is posted
Services
- Email this article to a friend
- Find similar articles in BMJ
- Add article to my folders
- Download to citation manager
- Request Permissions
Citing Articles
Google Scholar
PubMed
Related Content
-
Patients
-
Health service research
-
Health policy
- Ethnic studies
- Relevant Article
- Find this article in its weekly table of contents
Bookmark with
What's new
Latest blogs
Find BMJ on:
Services
Tools
Online poll
Resources
Rapid responses for this article
Print issues
