The quest for diversity for diversity’s sake enfeebles the NHS, the police and the Armed Forces – which makes it a matter of life and death
A friend who is a hospital consultant has been warning me for a while about NHS “diversity” hiring, which means doctors and nurses trained here in the UK are often rejected in favour of less well-qualified medics from overseas. It gets worse. Twenty-five years ago, when Amir did his training, it was extremely competitive to get into medicine in India. Indian doctors were the best of the best, my friend says, even recalling with pride the high ranking he had among thousands of applicants. Today, rich parents can just buy a medical school place for their kids, some of them none too bright. “Everything has a price tag,” Amir says. “Not just undergraduate degrees; postgraduate degrees as well.”
