Hackney's diversity
 Hackney is an exciting and challenging area in which to train for General Practice. The people of Hackney are a multi cultural and socially diverse population, with all the interesting problems typical of inner city medicine.
The population of East London is young, mobile and growing. There are high birth rates with proportionally more children than in England and Wales as a whole. It is a multi-cultural borough with Black Carribeans, often second and third generation, making up the largest non-white ethnic grouping. Black Africans are presently the largest incoming group to the area, some more recent arrivals being political refugees. There is also an influx of Turkish and Kurdish people into the area., and , more recently, of Kosovars, Romanians and Afghanis and Albanians.
 There are significant pockets of Hackney which house the up and coming more affluent members of the community which includes doctors, journalists, city workers and TV producers - who because of the proximity to the City and the centre of London choose to live in the borough. They have discovered that choosing to live in Hackney is a far cry from having to live in Hackney. Hackney can offer the same sort of housing as Islington but not at its expensive neighbours' prices. The development of Shoreditch in the south of the Borough into a thriving artist- workshop community where industrial warehouses are converted into highly desirable living and working spaces, has had a positive rebound effect with café bars, restaurants and art galleries springing up both there and further eastwards into Hackney proper. There are more artists in Hackney than in Paris!
 
The Hackney VTS will equip you to look after this interesting yet challenging population.
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