White male doctors in Britain are being denied bonuses because of 'reverse discrimination' by National Health Service, an eminent consultant has claimed.
LONDON: White male doctors in Britain are being denied bonuses because of 'reverse discrimination' by National Health Service, an eminent consultant has claimed.
David Rosin, a former vice-president of the Royal College of Surgeons, said female and ethnic minority consultants are being given preferential treatment to meet artificial quotas.
Rosin, ex-President of Association for Cancer Surgery, failed to get the top 'platinum award' mawarded ten years in a row to others despite being backed in his application by the Royal College and his NHS trust, 'The Sunday Times' said.
He said: "When I asked a previous president (of the Royal College of Surgeons) why I had been unsuccessful, the answer came back immediately: "What do you expect? You are not black, you are not female and you have all four limbs."
Rosin's comments are likely to provoke a row about whether policies to promote equal opportunities in NHS have led to positive discrimination. Figures show a dramatic rise in the number of women and ethnic minorities winning merit awards over the past five years. They can add up to 73,000 pounds to a consultant's annual pay of about 112,000 pounds.
However, Rosin, who retired from his NHS post as a senior consultant surgeon at St Mary's NHS Trust hospital, London, in June believes it has now tipped into positive discrimination.
"It is time that someone spoke up concerning the reverse discrimination with respect to merit awards," he wrote in a letter to the magazine Hospital Doctor. "In the politically correct environment in which we live, there is now definitely reverse discrimination."
About half of Britain's 33,000 consultants receive an award at some level, ranging from 2,850 pounds to 73,158 pounds. The scheme costs the NHS at least 250 million pounds a year.
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