An online campaign has been launched by female doctors in the UK, which they say shows gender-based discrimination, harassment and sexual assault in healthcare.

Becky Cox and Chelcie Jewitt, the founders of Surviving in Scrubs are encouraging women to share their stories of harassment and abuse working in healthcare to “push for change and to reach the people in power”.

The campaigners are calling for the General Medical Council (GMC), which regulates doctors, to explicitly denounce sexist and misogynistic behaviour towards female colleagues.

Around 40 stories have already been shared on the website, including inappropriate remarks from supervisors and sexual harassment from patients, with one respondent saying that she "did not feel safe at work".

A report published by the British Medical Association (BMA) in 2021 showed that 91 per cent of female respondents had experienced sexism at work within the past two years. 84 per cent of all respondents said there was sexism in the medical profession, and 61 per cent of women felt they were discouraged from working in a particular specialty due to their gender. Most respondents said they believed the main driver of sexism in the medical professional was individual views and behaviours, followed by structural and institutional factors.

Following the report, Latifa Patel, the acting chair of the BMA’s representative body, and a doctor, said: “There is no place for sexism in society. If we want to eradicate it, we all have a part to play. It’s going to take a concerted effort, and it won’t be quick to fix, but sexism must stop.”