- The National Health Service is racist with black and Asian doctors and nurses facing constant discrimination. Many are left languishing in their careers while white colleagues are rapidly promoted. Observer
Sunday June 17, 2001
- Racial harassment, bullying and discrimination are daily facts of life for black and Asian doctors, according to a report published today by the King's Fund, an independent health
thinktank. Guardian
Tuesday June 19, 2001
- Racism 'rife' in NHS merit awards to consultants. John Carvel, social
affairs editor
Thursday
November 7, 2002 The Guardian
- The NHS suffers from a chronic racial bias and consistently discriminates
against black patients and staff, Trevor Phillips, the chairman of the
commission for racial equality, said yesterday. John Carvel
Wednesday April 30, 2003 The Guardian
- Rastafarian suffering from schizophrenia died at clinic after being held
face down on the floor by at least four nurses. John Carvel, social affairs
editor
Friday February 6, 2004 The Guardian
- The NHS is riddled with institutional racism and persistently fails to
give patients from the black and minority ethnic communities the services they
need and deserve, an official inquiry will declare next week. John Carvel,
social affairs editor
Friday February 6, 2004 The Guardian
- The inquiry team delivered a withering analysis of institutional racism in
the NHS. John Carvel
Friday February 6, 2004 The Guardian
- Racism and the NHS. Letters
Saturday February 7, 2004 The Guardian
- The government was preparing last night to reject or water down three
recommendations from the official inquiry into the death of David "Rocky"
Bennett, exposing institutional racism in NHS treatment of mental health
patients. John Carvel, social affairs editor
Saturday February 7, 2004 The Guardian
- Eradicate racism. Leader
Saturday February 7, 2004 The Guardian
- Black nurses paid less than white colleagues. Jo Revill, health
editor
Sunday February 8, 2004 The Observer
- Thousands of nurses are being driven out of the profession by an archaic
system of compulsory shift working that plays havoc with their personal lives
and family responsibilities, the Royal College of Nursing warned last night.
John Carvel, social affairs editor
Monday February 9, 2004 The Guardian
- Why racism is losing the NHS staff. Letters
Monday February 9, 2004 The Guardian
- The sister of psychiatric patient David "Rocky" Bennett, who died after
being restrained at a secure unit, today called for action against those who
had contributed to his death. Debbie Andalo and agencies
Thursday February 12, 2004
- As the government is urged to take steps to wipe out institutional racism
in mental health services, following the death of David 'Rocky' Bennett, Aneez
Esmail says it has to admit it exists first.
Thursday February 12, 2004
- The inquiry into the death of psychiatric patient David 'Rocky' Bennett
today published its findings. Key figures give their responses.
Thursday February 12, 2004
- Sympathy but no promises from Reid. Recommendations from inquiry into
mental care death rejected. John Carvel, social affairs editor
Friday February 13, 2004 The Guardian
- John Reid's response yesterday to the inquiry into Rocky Bennett's death
was influenced by a working relationship he has struck with Trevor Phillips,
chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality. Unannounced, they are in the
process of writing a pamphlet on tackling racism in the health service.
John Carvel, social affairs editor
Friday February 13, 2004 The Guardian
- NHS racism: long history, little change. John Carvel
Friday February 13, 2004 The Guardian
- Government health inspectors raised fresh concern last night about racial
discrimination in the NHS after a survey of 370,000 patients showed
above-average dissatisfaction among people from the Indian, Pakistani and
Bangladeshi communities. John Carvel
Friday February 27, 2004 The Guardian
- As members of the Medical Practitioners Union, the trade union for doctors
and a section of Amicus, we are increasingly horrified at the blatant increase
in institutional racism within the NHS. In the aftermath of the report into
the death of David Bennett, John Reid denies that there is a "festering
abscess" of racism within the NHS. We, as doctors, see the effects of this
abscess every day and are increasingly asked to facilitate its growth. Letters
Thursday March 18, 2004 The Guardian
- The health secretary, John Reid, today praised the cultural diversity of
NHS staff and reiterated that racism will not be tolerated in the health
service. Debbie Andalo
Monday April 26, 2004
- A black nurse suffered racial discrimination when she was banned from taking
care of a sick white baby, an employment tribunal ruled yesterday. Rosie Purves,
58, brought the case against Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust for race
discrimination and failing to prevent the abuse after managers moved the
six-month-old girl to a different ward. Mrs Purves was awarded £20,000 in
compensation.
Tuesday
May 18, 2004 The Guardian
- The government will this week order the NHS to introduce comprehensive
ethnic monitoring of all mental health patients in England after evidence of
persistent racial discrimination against black and minority ethnic groups.
Rosie Winterton, the health minister, will publish a long-delayed response to
an official inquiry into the death of David "Rocky" Bennett, a 38-year-old
Jamaican-born Rastafarian who died in a psychiatric ward in Norwich in 1998.
The inquiry, under Sir John Blofeld, a retired high court judge, found in
February last year that Mr Bennett was killed by being held face down on the
floor for 28 minutes by at least four mental health nurses. John Carvel,
social affairs editor
Monday
January 10, 2005 The Guardian
- The government today refused to accept that the NHS is "institutionally
racist" despite admitting that people from ethnic minorities have long
suffered discrimination and unfair treatment in mental health services. Health
minister Rosie Winterton denied the charge of institutional racism as she
launched a five-year strategy to reduce the discrimination and unfair
treatment suffered by people from ethnic minorities with mental health
problems. David Batty
Tuesday January 11, 2005
- Race reform of NHS mental health services: reaction in quotes. A new
blueprint for prevention of racism against people from ethnic minorities by
NHS mental health services was welcomed by campaigners although they they are
disappointed the government did not go further.
Tuesday January 11, 2005
- Ministers committed the government yesterday to a five-year plan to halt
racial discrimination in NHS mental health services in England, which was
exposed last year by an inquiry into the death of David "Rocky" Bennett. Rosie
Winterton, the health minister, said people from black and minority ethnic
communities were less likely to come forward voluntarily for mental health
treatment, more likely to stay longer as in-patients in psychiatric wards, and
more likely to be prescribed medication or electro-convulsive therapy (ECT)
instead of psychological treatment. Young black men were six times more likely
than their white contemporaries to be sectioned under the Mental Health Act
for compulsory treatment, although international studies showed they were not
genetically more susceptible to serious mental illness. John Carvel, social
affairs editor
Wednesday
January 12, 2005 The Guardian
- The first census of mental health units to establish the extent of
discrimination against black and minority ethnic patients will be carried out
throughout the NHS and private hospitals in England and Wales tomorrow. Health
inspectors will look into the ethnic and religious characteristics of all
in-patients and their experience of seclusion or injury while on hospital
premises. John Carvel, social affairs editor
Wednesday
March 30, 2005 The Guardian
- A community approach addressing racial and cultural issues in mental
health services is getting results. Adam James reports.
Wednesday June 22, 2005 The Guardian
- It was Trevor Phillips, chair of the Commission for Racial Equality, who
likened the NHS to a snow-capped mountain where the boss is almost always
white. The lack of senior executives from ethnic minorities - estimated at
just 1% of chief executives and 7% of executive directors - is especially
stark when one considers that nearly 35% of doctors, 16% of nurses and 11% of
non-medical staff are from ethnic minorities. Aneez Esmail
Wednesday November 30, 2005 The Guardian
- The NHS is guilty of widespread failure to comply with race relations law,
the health inspectorate warned in a report today. The Healthcare Commission
said only seven of the 570 NHS trusts across England published enough
information on their official websites to show they are obeying the Race
Relations (Amendment) Act 2000. John Carvel, social affairs editor
Friday
August 18, 2006 Guardian Unlimited
- Race watchdog
in warning to Department of Health. The Department of Health is being
threatened with legal action by the race relations watchdog which has accused
it of repeatedly failing to consider the needs of ethnic minority patients
when making policies. In the first action of its kind against an entire
government department, the Commission for Racial Equality has warned the DoH
that it is "minded" to launch a formal investigation into its policy-making.
The commission accuses the department of failing to carrying out race equality
impact assessments (REIAs) on its own policies.
Summary by
Keep our NHS Public
of Guardian 23 August 2006
- 'Apartheid' warning over psychiatric care. Warnings of 'a kind of
apartheid' in the mental health system have been made by Lord Patel of
Bradford, chairman of the Mental Health Act Commission. He said it could be
one reason why some black groups were 18 times more likely to be in
psychiatric care. Lord Patel said it had to be established why there was an
over-representation of black people in psychiatric care. Experts estimate that
black people are three to 10 times more likely to be diagnosed as
schizophrenic and less likely to be diagnosed with depression. They are also
more likely to be detained under the Mental Health Act and to be given
medication, rather than 'talking' therapies.
Sunday
April 1, 2007 The Observer
- Getting rights right. Primary care trusts need to develop a
strategy to tackle equality and human rights, writes Blair McPherson.
Friday July 20, 2007 SocietyGuardian.co.uk
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