Blog Posts

In our work at Equality 4 Black Nurses, we have identified that White Nurses receive fewer referrals to the NMC and often receive more...

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...

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...

Due to the history of racist practices towards Black and Brown health workers that have been further exposed by our experience of the...

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...

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...

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...

A new review from the NHS Race and Health Observatory is out, observing inequalities in healthcare from the perspective of patients and...

Patient-facing Black and ethnic minority workers who have not had the COVID-19 vaccine risk losing their jobs. Overwhelming data in...

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...

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...

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...

My experience of racism in the workplace is real and painful because it's not only the racism but the wickedness that follows. The...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Equality 4 Black Nurses is interviewing black nurses about the impact racism has had on them, in the hopes that more people feel...

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...

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...