Embracing each others Culture
This poem was written by a staff nurse in recovery from severe racial abuse from a white senior manager in a large NHS trust. She worked...
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Anika Ola
- Feb 26
- 6 min
Racism in the NHS - hiding in plain sight for those brave enough to look at it. Our lives Matter
Have you been asked to write a reflective account but need clarification on what you might have done wrong? When you are unsure, it's...
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Anika Ola
- Jan 2
- 2 min
An Anti-Racist Health Service Manifesto for Change
Due to the history of racist practices towards Black and Brown health workers that have been further exposed by our experience of the...
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Anika Ola
- Aug 5, 2022
- 6 min
NHS trust supported the physical racist attack on a Black Nurse by her white senior colleague
What’s your current job role? I’m a nurse in a London hospital What brought you to E4BN? Over a long period whilst working in an NHS...
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BR
- Jun 22, 2022
- 1 min
Gaining Strength
A mind yearns for a mouth to speak. How can I explain? The waters from the brooks of eyes... Even when hereby, a girl so far with the...
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BR
- Apr 8, 2022
- 14 min
As An Overseas Social Worker, I Was Vulnerable And My Employer Did Not Support Me
What’s your current job role? I’m a social worker. What brought you to E4BN? I saw the E4BN blog post about a Black nurse who had been...
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Anika Ola
- Feb 17, 2022
- 3 min
How Many More Reports Do We Need? Our view on The NHS Race and Health Observatory Review
A new review from the NHS Race and Health Observatory is out, observing inequalities in healthcare from the perspective of patients and...
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Anika Ola
- Feb 1, 2022
- 3 min
The Discriminatory Nature of Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccines in Healthcare: We're Being Forced Out
Patient-facing Black and ethnic minority workers who have not had the COVID-19 vaccine risk losing their jobs. Overwhelming data in...
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Anika Ola
- Jan 20, 2022
- 7 min
Black nursing staff are often blamed & punished for issues that White staff are supported through
What’s your current job role? I’m a registered Nurse. What brought you to E4BN? My employer suspended me and the trade union, which...
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Anika Ola
- Dec 2, 2021
- 10 min
I’ve continuously been allocated Covid positive wards. I’m Black & I am high risk, give me a break
What’s your current job role? I’m a Healthcare Assistant (HCA) in an adult high dependency unit and I was training during the first peak...
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Anika Ola
- Aug 19, 2021
- 3 min
Black Nurse Assaulted by a White Health Care Assistant (HCA) at UHCW NHS Trust
I am a Registered Nurse and I was working a night shift at a hospital with a team of White colleagues. I was the only Black member of...
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Anika Ola
- Aug 9, 2021
- 7 min
I was the only Black nurse in the department and I soon found out that I had been downgraded to HCA
My experience of racism in the workplace is real and painful because it's not only the racism but the wickedness that follows. The...
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Anika Ola
- Jul 20, 2021
- 3 min
White NHS staff trumped up charges against me & referred me to the NMC for speaking out racism.
Being a member of one of the largest unions in the UK for over 8 years paying my monthly subscriptions without fail. I was devastated...
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LP
- Jul 15, 2021
- 2 min
My Union Rep Told Me that He Just Couldn't See the Racism that I was Complaining About
What is the name of your union? I am a member of one of the largest nurse unions in the country. How long have you been a member of your...
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LP
- Jul 6, 2021
- 4 min
Union Refused to Represent Black Nurse against Racism because she Was One Week Short of Joining
How long have you been a member of your union? As a newly qualified nurse, I never considered joining a union as the environment was new...
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LP
- Jul 1, 2021
- 3 min
A Black Nurse's Experience of her Union Rep in Times of Trouble
I have been a member of one of the largest nursing unions in the country for 11 years. I often wonder if I should just cancel the...
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LP
- Jun 18, 2021
- 5 min
Discrimination Towards Black Nurses in the Healthcare Sector: Speaking Up and Changing the System
Equality 4 Black Nurses is interviewing black nurses about the impact racism has had on them, in the hopes that more people feel...
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Anika Ola
- Jun 4, 2021
- 5 min
Dear Beautiful Black nurse - Keep your head up - Tomorrow is another day
This has been the hardest time ever. I feel that my head is going to explode. My feet are walking, not with a pace of haste but with a...
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Alix Lee
- May 1, 2021
- 6 min
Reflections of a White Nurse
Full disclosure: I am a white, middle-class, middle-aged woman. And that is how I was when I came into nursing. I was 42 years old when I...
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Nadina Ali
- Apr 3, 2021
- 3 min
Inspirational Black nurses : Princess Campbell, Bristol’s activist nurse
Today, we celebrate nurse Princess Campbell, not only one of Bristol’s first black nurses but also one of the first black ward sisters in...
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