HC Deb 14 June 1994 vol 244 c377W
Mr. Watson

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps she intends to take to ensure that NHS trusts and health authorities detail in their business plans arrangements to ensure that all staff involved in recruitment and selection receive training in fair procedures and that records are kept, as set out in the Goal One instruction contained in the document, "Ethnic Minority Staff in the NHS: A Programme for Action"; and what steps she intends to take to ensure that this requirement is drawn to the attention of general practitioners.

Dr. Mawhinney

We expect all national health service health authorities and trusts to comply with each of the relevant goals in the programme of action, and family health services authorities to ensure that general practitioners are made aware of the programme's principles of good employment practice which it contains.

Mr. Watson

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many GPs have refused to comply with the Goal One instruction contained in the document, "Ethnic Minority Staff in the NHS: A Programme for Action".

Dr. Mawhinney

Compliance is a matter for national health service employers.