{"id":89412,"date":"2026-05-19T10:19:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89412"},"modified":"2026-05-19T10:19:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:19:21","slug":"nhs-racism-surge-as-black-nurse-says-patient-told-me-they-want-white-nurse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/19\/nhs-racism-surge-as-black-nurse-says-patient-told-me-they-want-white-nurse\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS racism surge as Black nurse says &#8216;patient told me they want white nurse&#8217;"},"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\/AA23vySj.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6&amp;x=430&amp;y=179&amp;s=189&amp;d=189\" alt=\"Black nurse Neomi Bennett told The Mirror patients have told her they want a \u201cwhite nurse\u201d to treat them\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More than 21,000 incidents of racist abuse were reported by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/nursing-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow 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}\">nursing\u00a0<\/a>staff across the UK over the last four years &#8211; surging by 78% in that time, grim research shows.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/nhs-racism-surge-as-black-nurse-says-patient-told-me-they-want-white-nurse\/ar-AA23vVve?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=6a0c384fdb5e4e0bb99a7167704a13ec&amp;ei=25\"> 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>More than 21,000 incidents of racist abuse were reported by\u00a0nursing\u00a0staff across the UK over the last four years &#8211; surging by 78%&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/BAME3.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89412","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=89412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89413,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89412\/revisions\/89413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}