Viewpoints: race and racism in primary care

The Black Lives Matter campaign has highlighted issues of race and racism which are present in all parts of our communities and organisations. BJGP Open invited short Viewpoints to document experiences of racism in primary care as a patient, practitioner, trainee, or researcher.

This initiative sits outside the usual BJGP Open framework for research and commentary, and was created as a rapid access format for sharing information.

Viewpoints

• "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