{"id":90387,"date":"2026-06-08T07:43:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T07:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=90387"},"modified":"2026-06-08T07:43:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T07:43:18","slug":"nhs-doctors-pressured-not-to-section-psychotic-black-patients-due-to-fears-of-appearing-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/08\/nhs-doctors-pressured-not-to-section-psychotic-black-patients-due-to-fears-of-appearing-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS doctors &#8216;pressured not to section psychotic black patients due to fears of appearing racist&#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\"> < 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\/AA252Maj.img?w=768&h=504&m=6\" alt=\"NHS | Source: GETTY\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NHS psychiatrists are being discouraged from detaining psychotic black patients under the Mental Health Act amid concerns about appearing racist. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/nhs-doctors-pressured-not-to-section-psychotic-black-patients-due-to-fears-of-appearing-racist\/ar-AA252BQs?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a25b24e6c43495db806a2a485a13d91&ei=10\">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>NHS psychiatrists are being discouraged from detaining psychotic black patients under the Mental Health Act amid concerns about appearing racist. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90387","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\/NHS2-1.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90387","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=90387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90388,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90387\/revisions\/90388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}