When Will the NHS Address its Under-Representation of White People?
It’s now apparently acceptable to accuse the Royal Family of being ‘terrible white’ or ‘too white’. In fact, it’s not only acceptable, but saying this makes one a courageous, outspoken hero for the BBC and the progressive Left. So, I assume it would also be acceptable for me to suggest that our beloved NHS may be ‘insufficiently white’.
Let me explain. Our collapsing NHS seems obsessed with hiring DIE (Diversity, Inclusion and Equality) managers. The apparent purpose of these wonderful people is (to quote just one of many similar job ads) “ensuring our workforce reflects the communities and patients we serve in order that we can meet the needs of our diverse communities”.
So, let’s do a quick check on how well current NHS staffing “reflects the communities and patients we serve”.
Of the NHS’s 1.3 million employees, 74.3% are white compared to 80.7% of the working-age population and 87.1% of the total population; 12.5% are Asian compared to 10.1% of the working-age population and 6.9% of the total population; and 7.4% are Black compared to only 4.4% of the working-age population and 3.0% of the total population.
Between 2009 and 2022, the percentage of NHS staff who were white went down from 84.1% to 74.3% and the percentage of NHS staff who were Asian went up from 7.3% to 12.5% – the biggest increase out of all ethnic groups
The first conclusion is that the NHS actually has a greater percentage of employees from ethnic minorities (25.6%) than in the working-age population (20.2%) and than in the general population. So, if the NHS is going to reflect the communities it serves, as it claims it wants to do, then clearly the NHS should employ more white people and fewer Asian and black people.
But, you say, aren’t most of the NHS ethnic minorities doing the more menial jobs while evil, ghastly white supremacists take all the top, best-paid jobs?
Well, here are the figures.
For professionally qualified clinical staff, only 68.7% were white compared to 80.7% of the working-age population and 87.1% of the total population; 15.9% were Asian compared to 10.1% of the working-age population and 6.9% of the total population; and 8.0% were black compared to only 4.4% of the working-age population and 3.0% of the total population.
Let’s just do one more category – qualified doctors: a mere 50.1% were white compared to 80.7% of the working-age population and 87.1% of the total population; an impressive 32.0% were Asian compared to 10.1% of the working-age population and 6.9% of the total population; and 5.9% were black compared to only 4.4% of the working-age population and 3.0% of the total population.
All these figures and many more are available on the Government website.
In summary, among all staff and in particular medical staff, white people are under-represented, Asians are hugely over-represented and black people also score well compared to their part of the working age and general population. Given the under-representation of whites compared to their share of the working age population and general population and the over-representation of Asians and blacks, some people might find it somewhat mysterious that the NHS spends an estimated £40.7 million a year, according to the Taxpayers Alliance, on over 810 DIE (Diversity, Inclusion and Equality) specialists and is currently busy hiring even more of these unnecessary people on salaries that our struggling NHS can ill-afford.
Coming back to the question that nobody nowadays would dare ask, ‘Is the NHS insufficiently white?’ – the official figures from the U.K. Government suggest the answer, according to their own terms, can only be ‘yes’.
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Someone should do this kind of analysis on TV adverts. The results would almost certainly not be a big surprise. It is quite clear that minorities are way over represented in TV adverts. But as we should all realise by now, Diversity only means one thing ——Less White People.
More than that: it means ‘White people bad!!’ Especially white, married, middle class, heterosexual men, who are thus ‘stale, male and pale!’
It’s actually heading towards a sort of ‘apartheid’ in the long run, which is ridiculous. Just think: Lord Clarke would no longer be allowed to make a series like Civilisation, because apparently it’s no longer acceptable to have a TV show with a white man explaining things he knows a lot about.
Yep, it all comes from the School of mathematics, classical music, and turning up on time is “too WHITE”. ————–Imagine music that was composed by white people in a predominantly white country several hundred years ago when no black people were actually around being “too white”? Oh What a disgrace. —Beethoven and Mozart should have really included a bit of rap in their Opus.
The quoted stats about the ratios among the staff of the NHS and in the working age and total population do not address the issue:
the only valid comparison would be to measure the ratios among the ‘communities and patients we serve’ and ask how that compares with staffing of the NHS.
“ensuring our workforce reflects the communities and patients we serve in order that we can meet the needs of our diverse communities”
This implicitly assumes one of two things: (1) All applicants regardless of their “protected characteristics” are equally skilled and suited to the roles they apply for or (2) we’re going to select some workers of inferior quality because we need to fill quotas.
In the real world where skills are not distributed evenly, doing anything other than selecting on skills is idiotic – and the more safety critical the role, the more idiotic it is.
It’s all part of the war on European civilisation.
The “communities and patients we serve” is the bureaucratic word salad which, when translated, means the whole UK population. Thus the statistical comparison used is valid.
Soundof reason
You seem to suggest that the NHS deliberately fails to serve as many people from the indigenous population as might be expected on a rational basis.
Or alternatively that Asians and Blacks need more and (presumably) better service that Whites.
Which are you suggesting?
A reasonable sounding question, I suggest.
Are there any easily available stats for the proportion of employees who are indigenous in the European health systems that outperform the NHS?
OMG, that was quick! Great news for Prof Bhakdi today. I’m over the moon for such an amazing human being. 🙂
https://twitter.com/Kevin_McKernan/status/1661043441554403331
Thanks for that; me too.
Excellent news. Prof Bhakdi is one of the primary reasons I refused to participate in the mass medical experiment.
NHS.. WE ALL KNOW,…sorry,didn’t mean to shout! ….we all know that the NHS stands for: the National Health service! ..yes? Put in place by Anuerin Bevan, Clement Attlee! 1948,
Under the auspicious of a world beating health service for all!
FOR ALL!
But now:
(Whites and batteries not included)
See: https://shop.nationalarchives.gov.uk/products/the-new-national-health-service-nhs-1948-replica-booklet
‘Your new National Health Service begins on 5th July. What is it? How do you get it?
It will provide you with all medical, dental and nursing care. Everyone – rich or poor, man, woman or child-can use it or any part of it. There are no charges, except for a few special items. There are no insurance qualifications. But it is not a “charity”. You are all paying for it, mainly as tax payers, and it will relieve your money worries in time of illness.’
🙄 correct! 😁
NHS = National Holocaust Service according to a doctor I know… With the continued use of the Liverpool Care Pathway disguised as NG191 & NG163 it’s not difficult to see why.
David Craig needs cancelling. He’s dared to say what mustn’t be said: white people in the UK are now actively discriminated against.
Absolutely correct analysis!
Of course when you consider that medical students are drawn disproportionately from private school applicants the figures for white doctors from a working class background are grossly unrepresentative of the white working class population that they serve. They experience none of the white privilege so beloved of the elite preachers of the current cult of diversity, inclusion and equity.
it is now well recognised that white working class boys in particular are among the most disadvantaged in our society. Why are they so badly represented and supported?
Social mobility is of course a significant threat to the elite in our current society. Could it possibly be that they wish to preserve their very own personal white privilege at the expense of all others?
Why else would grammar schools be closed down, the very places that white, working class boys like myself could enter and then progress on to a proper University; in the late 1960s? The very definition of improved social mobility.
Is it easier to qualify as a doctor in an Asian country than it is in the UK? I get the impression that it might be because training doctors tell me it is difficult and expensive here. We have a shortage of doctors, so we import them. I have nothing against doctors of any race or origin, and my experience of medical staff from overseas has been good, but if we want more home-grown doctors of any race, we might need to look at our training program and make it better and incentivise young intelligent people who want to follow a medical career a bit more.