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Organisational barriers and ethnicity in the Scottish NHS

James Sheffield (Comhairle, The Scottish Centre for European Public sector studies, Faculty of Business, University of Paisley, Scotland, UK)
Asifa Hussain (Centre for War Studies, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK, and)
Paul Coleshill (Comhairle, The Scottish Centre for European Public sector studies, Faculty of Business, University of Paisley, Scotland, UK)

Journal of Management in Medicine

ISSN: 0268-9235

Article publication date: 1 August 1999

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Abstract

The NHS faces a crisis in terms of staffing and recruitment. Many of the ethnic minority GPs in inner city areas throughout the UK are coming up to retirement age, and there is an insufficient supply of trainees to fill estimated vacancies. Over 2,000 nursing vacancies exist across the UK, and recruitment to the profession and retention within the profession are poor. Nurses have been recruited from overseas for the past 40 years, and are currently being recruited from Finland, Malaysia, and the West Indies, whilst doctors are being sought in India, Pakistan and Africa. Overseas recruitment is not a new phenomenon, and numerous studies have been carried out to examine equal opportunities and racial discrimination within the NHS. The aim of this paper was to examine ethnicity and equal opportunities within the Scottish NHS and record the levels of organisational awareness of ethnicity and equal opportunities’ issues. The paper also examines the link between health service delivery to ethnic minorities and internal cultural attitudes to staff.

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Sheffield, J., Hussain, A. and Coleshill, P. (1999), "Organisational barriers and ethnicity in the Scottish NHS", Journal of Management in Medicine, Vol. 13 No. 4, pp. 263-285. https://doi.org/10.1108/02689239910291009

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