Fewer ethnic minority doctors are referred to GMC after cases are anonymised

Setting up independent panels to review anonymised case information before doctors are formally referred to the General Medical Council has helped to reduce the disproportionate rate of referrals of doctors from ethnic minorities in the east of England, the GMC’s annual conference has heard.

Anton Emmanuel, head of the NHS’s workforce race equality standard, told the conference on 4 May that there was now parity of referral between white doctors and those …