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Senior health figure accuses NHS of racism over care given to dying mother
Victor Adebowale says failure to detect his mother’s cancer was example of ‘black service, not NHS service’
A senior figure in the health service has criticised it for deep-seated racism after his mother “got a black service, not an NHS service” before she died.
Victor Adebowale, the chair of the NHS Confederation, claimed his mother Grace’s lung cancer went undiagnosed because black people get “disproportionately poor” health service care.
Black British mothers are up to four times more likely to die during pregnancy or within six weeks of giving birth than white mothers.
Those of black and African or Caribbean origin are twice as likely to have a stroke, and younger, than white counterparts.
Black African patients are two and a half times more likely to be detained under the Mental Health Act than white British patients. Continue reading...
