{"id":77733,"date":"2025-07-22T11:29:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T11:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=77733"},"modified":"2025-07-22T11:29:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T11:29:41","slug":"voices-ask-any-black-woman-we-get-second-class-nhs-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/22\/voices-ask-any-black-woman-we-get-second-class-nhs-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Voices: Ask any Black woman \u2013 we get second-class NHS treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1J2jc1.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Maternal Health\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/health\/nhs-maternity-investigation-wes-streeting-b2774980.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">gave birth<\/a>\u00a0for the first time, my concerns were dismissed by my medical care providers. I put it down to my age, as I was only 18 at the time,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/voices\/bame-black-racism-tony-sewell-minority-ethnic-b2530960.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">rather than my skin colour<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/voices-ask-any-black-woman-we-get-second-class-nhs-treatment\/ar-AA1J2lGX?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=8efa91dd353d4c37b5227c2dc04b2030&amp;ei=18\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>When I\u00a0gave birth\u00a0for the first time, my concerns were dismissed by my medical care providers. I put it down to my age,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-77733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GP-empty-waiting-room.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77734,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77733\/revisions\/77734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}