{"id":82828,"date":"2025-12-27T11:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=82828"},"modified":"2025-12-27T11:00:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T11:00:36","slug":"the-nhs-would-collapse-within-hours-bme-staff-say-britain-fails-to-appreciate-their-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/12\/27\/the-nhs-would-collapse-within-hours-bme-staff-say-britain-fails-to-appreciate-their-roles\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The NHS would collapse within hours\u2019: BME staff say Britain fails to appreciate their roles"},"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\/AA1T5mmF.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6&amp;x=850&amp;y=239&amp;s=295&amp;d=295\" alt=\"Allyson Williams spent 40 years in the NHS as a nurse, midwife, manager and clinical leader. \u2018It\u2019s been over 50 years and nobody has learned any lessons.\u2019 Photograph: Martin Godwin\/The Guardian\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am fed up of being called names. I know I am Black. I was born Black. And I love being Black. So tell me something I don\u2019t know.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/the-nhs-would-collapse-within-hours-bme-staff-say-britain-fails-to-appreciate-their-roles\/ar-AA1T5u2F?ocid=BingNewsBrowse\">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>\u201cI am fed up of being called names. I know I am Black. I was born Black. And I love being Black&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82828","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\/2025\/03\/Nigerian-nurses-UK.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82828","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=82828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82829,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82828\/revisions\/82829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}