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Radical action needed to tackle racial health inequality in NHS, says damning report

Exclusive: Review paints devastating picture of a healthcare system failing minority ethnic patients in England

  • Analysis: NHS race review should be cue to finally tackle health inequalities

Radical action is needed urgently to tackle “overwhelming” minority ethnic health inequalities in the NHS, leading experts have said, after a damning study found the “vast” and “widespread” inequity in every aspect of healthcare it reviewed was harming the health of millions of patients.

Racism, racial discrimination, barriers to accessing healthcare and woeful ethnicity data collection have “negatively impacted” the health of black, Asian and minority ethnic people in England for years, according to the review, commissioned by the NHS Race and Health Observatory, which reveals the true scale of health inequalities faced by ethnic minorities for the first time.

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