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» Wednesday, January 19, 2005

Racial Equality

Asked if the strategy launched today was another example of public servants being displaced from front line carers to "bureaucratic form fillers" instead, the PMOS said it was important to recognise the importance of racial equality issues, and not to regard them as an add-on. Enormous progress had been made over the past 7 years to open up opportunities for all, but even more must be done so everyone had an equal chance of promotion.

Asked if therefore it was more important than delivering care to a patient waiting in a queue in the hospital, the PMOS replied it was not a question of either/or, but rather a question of doing both, and of utilising the skills of all the citizens as a whole.

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