Are minorities being failed by the NHS? | LBC callers react
UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting says there is a racism problem in the health service, where a quarter of black women say they’ve experienced discrimination. Ali Miraj hears from callers with medical backgrounds and firsthand experiences of being on the receiving end of discrimination.
00:01 | ‘Black women are being subjected to racist treatment on NHS maternity wards’
2:13 | Caller Tiago says he would be ‘terrified’ if he were a pregnant Black woman using the NHS
2:52 | Caller Dinesh recalls the time his wife was told by an NHS worker to ‘go back to India’
6:54 | Ali Miraj says ‘a lot of people who work in the NHS are from minority ethnic backgrounds’
8:40 | Caller and doctor Maryam says that ‘structural racism does exist within the NHS’
11:47 | Healthcare professional Victoria says Black NHS workers are ‘more likely to get dismissed at hearings’ in her experience
16:04 | Caller and nurse Melissa says her white colleagues ‘might not be racist, but they are complicit’
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