RACE AND RACISM IN PRIMARY CARE
The Black Lives Matter campaign has highlighted issues of race and racism that are present in all parts of our communities and organisations. In this special collection of BJGP Open, we have collated evidence from recent individual lived experiences, alongside practice and practice submissions on this important issue.
We additionally set out the journal’s ambitious programme of work to tackle racism within publication science, and we open consultation on the collection of anonymised sociodemographic data from all our authors. This will allow us to report publication statistics by ethnicity and make changes to address disparities, if they are found.
We are interested in hearing your opinions. Join the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #RacismInPrimaryCare, send us an e-letter at https://bjgpopen.org/letters, or email us.
In this issue
Race and Racism in Primary Care: A special collection from BJGP Open
Dambha-Miller et al
Race and racism: are we too comfortable with comfort?
Gopal et al
Decolonising medical education and exploring White fragility.
Hartland and Larkai
Ethnic inclusion in medicine: the ineffectiveness of the ‘Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic’ metric to measure progress.
Sarfo-Annin
Broken mirrors: a trainee’s experience of racism in the workplace.
Ikpoh
Better for us all — recent learning on how the RCGP can reduce racism.
Howe et al
Viewpoints
BJGP Open also invited short Viewpoints to document experiences of racism in primary care as a patient, practitioner, trainee, or researcher.
Past research calls
Details of past research calls can be found here.