Special issue: Race and Racism in Primary Care

The Black Lives Matter campaign has highlighted the issues of race and racism present in all parts of our communities and organisations. This special issue collates evidence from lived experience, alongside practice and policy submissions on this important issue.

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. This initiative sat outside the usual BJGP Open framework for research and commentary.

• "Fight for the Things You Care About, But Do it in a Way That Will Lead Others to Join You"
  Dr Mohammed Sattar

• Tackling Racial Disparities in General Practice: Now is the Time
  Dr Naureen Bhatti and Prof Mala Rao

• At the Root of Many of the World’s Ills Lies Fear
  Dr Silvana Unigwe

• A Call to GPs: "Racism is a Public Health Crisis"
  Dr Jasjit Kaur Atwal and Dr Laura Nellums

• "I Want to See a White Doctor"
  Dr Hisham Nobeebaccus

• Calling Out Racism and Being Deemed 'The Problem': My Long and Bumpy Road to General Practice
  Dr Aaliya Goyal

• Islamophobia: A Complex Intersectional Phenomenon of Race, Religion, Class, Citizenship and Gender-Based Oppression
  Dr Hina Javaid Shahid

• Funding for Core Primary Care Services
  Kate Bellingham

• A Nutshell History of Racism in British Health Care
  Dr Sonali Dutta-Knight

• "Why Don't You Just Ignore it?": The Importance of Challenging Endemic Racism
  Anonymous

• The Daily Experience of Racism in Brazil
  Marina Gonçalves Moreira

About our guest editor

Dr Adams is a member of the BJGP’s International Advisory Board and Dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. He completed secondary school at Queens College in his native Guyana, received a BSc in Biochemistry from Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, and a MBBS and DM Family Medicine from the University of the West Indies (Jamaica and Barbados campuses). He is a GP who after completing his internship in Trinidad has been practising medicine for over 30 years in Barbados. He is a former Editor of the Barbados Association of Medical Practitioners Bulletin.

Dr Adams has a strong interest in health disparities resulting from social, economic, environmental, educational and health care access differences. The current debate highlights the impact of race and racism on these factors and on physical and mental health. Dr Adams offers a personal perspective and professional expertise on the subject. 

PAST RESEARCH CALLS

Details of past research calls can be found here.