BIMA engages with key healthcare regulators and institutions, including government, the GMC, NMC, BMA, and the Royal Colleges, to ensure the perspectives of Muslim healthcare professionals are heard.
We not only collaborate and provide expertise but also challenge these bodies where policies, guidance, or practices fall short on equality, inclusion, and ethical standards.
BIMA brings the real experiences of Muslim healthcare professionals into national conversations, advocating for fairness, inclusion, and ethical standards in healthcare policy and practice. Below are some recent highlights from our engagement with policymakers and institutions:
“Our collective goal must be a health service where every member of staff feels safe, valued, and respected, irrespective of ethnicity, faith, or political expression. To achieve this, anti-racism work must be inclusive, transparent, and applied without hierarchy or favour.”
BIMA’s letters to Wes Streeting and Lord Mann following the government’s announcement of a review into antisemitism and other forms of racism in the NHS urged recognition and response to evidence of Islamophobia and discrimination.
“BIMA stands ready to support work that genuinely protects all staff and patients. Not selectively, but universally. Only then can the NHS truly embody its founding principles of fairness, equality, and care for all…”
In our response to Government plans on racism in the NHS, we stressed the need for equal attention to all forms of prejudice.
“The ability to express conscience, within the law, is intrinsic to medical ethics and to the preservation of public trust in the profession.”
During Islamophobia Awareness Month, we called on BMA to recognise and act on evidence of harm in relation to censorship, Islamophobia and racism, including anti-Palestinian racism.
“We also affirm our solidarity with all those, in the UK and globally, who are calling for an immediate end to the genocide in Gaza and for accountability for attacks on civilians and healthcare workers. These principles lie at the heart of our profession’s ethical duties and international humanitarian law.”
Our statement on Gaza highlighted the protection of healthcare and the mental toll on professionals connected to affected communities.
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