Appalling. An extract:

The latest policy applies to interview shortlists that involve both white and non-white applicants, according to documents seen by this newspaper.

It has been in place at Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust since July 2018 for staff in senior positions, but was expanded in recent months to any role within the trust. If a white candidate is chosen, the panel chairman must write a report explaining why they were ‘more suitable’ for the role. It does not apply the other way around.

Anybody using the NHS over recent decades cannot fail to have observed that two groups of people are under-represented as staff, compared with their numbers in the wider population – men, and white people. White doctors are particularly uncommon, needless to say. In my local GP surgery, only one of the 11 GPs is a white man. Yet initiatives designed and implemented by an army of otherwise unemployable EDI managers continue to reduce the number of men and white people yet further. The initiatives are sexist and racist in the extreme.

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