As an organisation, one of our goals is to increase the admission of black females into Medicine & healthcare degrees and to support prospective black ethnic medics on their journey to their medical professions, through applying to medical school, during medical school and after medical school.
According to HES Agency in 2015/2016, only 2.4% of all medical students in the UK were African-Caribbean.
The GMC List of Medical Practitioners showed that only 3.2% of UK Registered Medical Practitioners were identified as African-Caribbean in 2017. BAME health professionals have the highest rate of complaints, but we believe that mentoring can help reduce this.
The lack of representation of black female mentors in UK medical schools and in mediical leadership as a whole has become more apparent over the years and has prompted establishment of our mentorship program.