NHS awards scheme may be discriminatory

Non-white and female consultants may be disadvantaged under the NHS discretionary points award scheme, which rewards consultants beyond their basic salaries. Esmail and colleagues (p 687) found that in England and Wales white consultants had 1.37 times as many awards as non-white consultants, and men had 1.25 times more than women. In Scotland the ratios were 1.34 and 1.36, respectively. Without effective monitoring and a transparent process, suspicion of discrimination in the allocation of awards may persist.

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Discrimination in the discretionary points award scheme: comparison of white with non-white consultants and men with women

Aneez Esmail, Peter Abel, and Sam Everington
BMJ 2003 326: 687-688. [Full Text] [PDF]