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Hospital chaplaincy units show bias towards Christianity
BMJ 2004; 329 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.329.7466.626 (Published 09 September 2004) Cite this as: BMJ 2004;329:626
- Aziz Sheikh, professor of primary care research and development (aziz.sheikh@ed.ac.uk),
- Abdul Rashid Gatrad, consultant paediatrician,
- Usman Sheikh, research assistant,
- Sukhmeet Singh Panesar, medical student,
- Shuja Shafi, consultant in public health
- Division of Community Health Sciences: General Practice Section, University of Edinburgh EH8 9DX
- Department of Paediatrics, Manor Hospital, Walsall WS2 9PS
- Research and Documentation Committee, Muslim Council of Britain, London E15 1NT
- Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ
- North West London Hospitals Trust, Harrow HA1 3UJ
EDITOR—The Human Rights Act 1998 and the Patient's Charter place a legal responsibility on public bodies to ensure the rights of individuals to religious observance.1 2 Concern has, however, been expressed that access to spiritual care in hospitals for those of non-Christian faiths is limited.3 We therefore conducted a national survey of hospital chaplaincy units.
We randomly selected 100 NHS hospitals …
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