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Nadina Ali
- Feb 5
- 2 min
Inspirational Black nurses : Annie ‘Nurse Ophthalmic’ Brewster
Annie Catherine Brewster was born in 1858 in the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent. She is one of the pioneer nurses of Afro-Carribean descent working in Britain in the late 1800s and who contributed to the British health service way before the Windrush generation and the birth of the NHS. Photo Credit : Queen Mary University London Annie Brewster moved to South London in the 1860s with her father, Pharour Chaderton Brewster, a wealthy merchant from Barbados and her younger
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Nadina Ali
- Jan 5
- 3 min
Pioneering Black nurse Dzagbele Matilda Asante
The Windrush narrative may make it look as if there was no nurses of African descent or coming from Africa in the UK before the NHS inception and during its early years. However, this couldn’t be further from the truth. Today, we commemorate Dzagbele Matilda Asante, the African nurse who was working in the UK before the Windrush era. Mrs Asante was born in 1927 in Ghana (then known as the Gold Coast). She was born into an affluent family and as a result was privileged enough
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Anika Ola
- Nov 28, 2020
- 5 min
How to deal with racism in the NHS : a quick guide
Today we look at various ways Black nurses and healthcare professionals can stamp out and fight against daily racism and discrimination in the workplace.
Racism within healthcare is still way too common. Black, Asian and other non white workers are more likely to be subjected to unfair and disproportionate disciplinary procedures and often have limited access to career progression than their white counterparts. In addition, despite the NHS employing a high proportion of Blac
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Nadina Ali
- Nov 14, 2020
- 6 min
An avoidable Crisis : COVID-19's impact on Black & Asian communities by Baroness Doreen Lawrence
Today, we talk about Baroness Doreen Lawrence's review into the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black, Asian and non-white communities which was released a couple of weeks ago. As the Covid Pandemic started to unfold and it became clear that people of Black, Asian and non-white backgrounds were dying at a disproportionate rate because of it, Leader of the Labour Party, Sir Keir Starmer asked Baroness Doreen Lawrence (mother of the late Stephen Lawrence) to investigate
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Nadina Ali
- Nov 6, 2020
- 5 min
Racism within the NHS : the story of Dr Simi Adedeji
Today we share the story of Dr Simi Adedeji, a former Surgeon, GP and Cosmetic Doctor who shared her experience of racism within the NHS via a YouTube video back in June. At the time of writing, her video has had 343,693 views and has been liked by almost 10,000 people showing how much her story resonated with people. In her video titled “Black People Too Dirty to Work in NHS | I Refuse to See a Black Doctor, Racism in Medicine”, Dr Adedeji shares some of her experiences of r
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