{"id":92537,"date":"2026-08-04T08:43:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T08:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=92537"},"modified":"2026-08-04T08:43:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T08:43:02","slug":"patients-refusing-to-be-treated-by-non-white-staff-as-nhs-reports-shocking-rise-in-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/04\/patients-refusing-to-be-treated-by-non-white-staff-as-nhs-reports-shocking-rise-in-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Patients refusing to be treated by non-white staff as NHS reports shocking rise in racism"},"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\/AA29kA6e.img?w=768&h=432&m=6\" alt=\"A rise in racism has been reported across the NHS. File pic: PA\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>NHS staff have been called \u201cdirty foreigners\u201d and \u201cmonkeys\u201d amid a \u201cnoticeable\u201d and \u201cunacceptable\u201d rise in racism from patients, a survey has found.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/other\/patients-refusing-to-be-treated-by-non-white-staff-as-nhs-reports-shocking-rise-in-racism\/ar-AA29kTWo?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a71a46f5ddd40f3932fe28bf986503a&ei=38\">Read More<\/a><\/strong><\/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 staff have been called \u201cdirty foreigners\u201d and \u201cmonkeys\u201d amid a \u201cnoticeable\u201d and \u201cunacceptable\u201d rise in racism from patients, a survey has&#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-92537","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\/92537","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=92537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92538,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92537\/revisions\/92538"}],"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=92537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}