The first medical textbook on anti-racist healthcare, launched in Parliament on 20 April, warns that ethnic inequalities still run deep throughout UK medicine. Its authors argue that proactively fighting racism is fundamental to fulfilling a founding promise of the NHS: fairness.
The project is co-led by Dr Zeshan Qureshi, an NHS doctor and PhD student in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
Being ‘race‑blind’ in medicine is not enough. The NHS must actively become anti‑racist if it is serious about equity.
Dr Zeshan Qureshi