The NHS has sparked fresh outrage after reportedly "discriminating" against white applicants, in favour of black and ethnic minority candidates.
Documents have shown that recruiters are encouraged to use the Rooney Rule, a policy originating from American football that makes it mandatory for ethnic minorities to be shortlisted for interviews if they apply.
The administrative body managing England's health services has also instructed managers to justify hiring white British nationals.
Discussing the policy on GB News, Editor-at-Large at the Mail on Sunday Charlotte Griffiths said the increase in anti-white recruitment processes is becoming a "habitual pattern" in Britain's public authorities.
Charlotte Griffiths hit out at the NHS for reportedly 'discriminating' against white applications
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Criticising the NHS, Griffiths told GB News: "I think there's been a habitual pattern, especially as it is always government organisations or the police or NHS particularly.
"And it's just become so ingrained now in society that I think when somebody puts together a job spec, they can't help but include this."
Hitting out at the move further, Griffiths argued that applicants should be hired "on merit only", not their ethnicity.
She added: "It's just because they're afraid not include it perhaps, or it's just become completely de rigueur. And I think the time has come to think, people have to be employed on merit.
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Documents show NHS England encourages the use of the Rooney RulePA"It would be horrible to get a job and think, I've just been employed because of my skin colour."
Discussing how the NHS is also creating division within the health system, Griffiths claimed that if you are a "non-English speaking person" on a ward, you are "bumped to the front of the queue".
She explained: "The other bugbear with the NHS is I've had three children, and I've been to many a maternity ward and waited in line - but if you are non-English speaking and you need a translator, they put you to the front of the queue.
"And that creates so many problems because I've seen pregnant mums scrapping about this. It actually creates division.
"And the logic in the maternity wards is because what they do is they hire in a translator for, say, an hour at great expense - and of course, anyone who needs a translator needs to go within that hour. So there is logic to it, but it creates division in the waiting line."
Griffiths told GB News that the move 'creates division' among staff and patients
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Noting one of the processes the NHS uses, the Rooney Rule, Griffiths claimed that it is simply "another box-ticking exercise" for the NHS, which is "completely bureaucratic beyond belief".
She concluded: "The NHS is completely bureaucratic beyond belief, and of course, any opportunity to create another tick box exercise or another layer of paperwork you have to get through, they just seem to jump at the chance.
"I do hope that changes about the NHS, as there's not enough money to go round it as it is, so you don't need to be spending lots of money creating these targets."
An NHS spokesman said: "All NHS organisations should have recruitment policies that are fair for everyone."
