I’ll never forget the day my wife came home upset that a patient had called her a ‘Stupid Paki’ and she was just… expected to accept that… and the patient was allowed to say it with no consequences.
The perk of having a monopoly healthcare system is that you hold the cards. Patients who racially abuse staff should either be kicked out (and whatever happens medically happens) or billed the full value of their medical treatment, with 30 days to pay, where failing to do so sees benefit cuts and assets taken. Would sort this crisis out very quickly.
We could clean house of these racists, using the might of the state, instead we make staff suffer.
booksy_daisies on
Anyone who racially abuses healthcare professionals – or indeed abuses anyone on ward in any way – should automatically go right to the back of the care queue. And be made to wait until there is anyone on duty willing to help them.
rebo_arc on
Of course they will, when a racist Reform MP can say it upsets her that „adverts are full of black people“ and not have to immediately resign in disgrace. Thugs and racists feel empowered to be racist as well.
Look at what the cowardice of people in power who will not directly challenge Racist Reform delivers to the country. Division, hate, and cruelty.
It is just as much the fault of those who will not hold Reform to account as it is those fascists themselves.
TheLyam on
And there are politicians who want to normalise racism.
CameramanNick on
My father is currently in hospital, and I’ll be going to visit him later today.
The staff are generally great and I have no qualms over their medical competence, but of about eight nurses I now know by sight, I think only one of them is a native speaker of English. Several of the others do not speak English well enough for me to have an important conversation with them that I want to have. I’ve tried. They were confused. Several of them do, but they’re not always around. I’ve also had this experience recently with police officers and officials at a local council facility.
Now, let’s not get all excited about racism, because at least some of these people are – I would guess – Polish, or at least from eastern Europe, and are visually indistinguishable from people born and brought up in the UK. This is a concern about language ability, not anyone’s family background. My first girlfriend was Punjabi, so let’s get over that one.
The problem is that I suspect I’ll be decried for some sort of thought crime for raising this issue, and I wonder how much of that 55% is actually about language ability, not race. Do we know what the criteria were?
clatham90 on
This is a disgrace. The bad press the NHS almost consistently gets is given some entitled patients free rein to do and say as they please. Unfortunately, it comes with the territory of healthcare free at the point of use.
Clearly the no tolerance approach is not working. Something more drastic needs to be put into practice. Whatever that is requires the political will which is absent at the moment.
bigreset2026 on
Because the elites wanted to put one group against another to evade being revealed as the true enemies of the people.
Zerospark- on
Abuse of any type like this, be it racism, misogyny, homaphobia, transphobia, whatever needs to result in the idiot bigot getting kicked out and prosecuted.
Maybe send them to a therapist to work through their bigotry so they can go back to the hospital and not be a buthole
The workers have a right to a safe environment, and they are there to help people
If someone wants to be able to interact with the hospital system, then they need to be able to treat people like humans.
beejiu on
I don’t want this to be taken the wrong way, but the data starts in 2022. It’s probably the Halo effect of COVID („NHS heroes“) disappearing rather than the UK becoming more racist. You’d need to look at the long term trend before COVID to know for sure.
SableSnail on
Anyone who abuses the healthcare staff should be barred from using the NHS.
Let them pay for their own private care.
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I’ll never forget the day my wife came home upset that a patient had called her a ‘Stupid Paki’ and she was just… expected to accept that… and the patient was allowed to say it with no consequences.
The perk of having a monopoly healthcare system is that you hold the cards. Patients who racially abuse staff should either be kicked out (and whatever happens medically happens) or billed the full value of their medical treatment, with 30 days to pay, where failing to do so sees benefit cuts and assets taken. Would sort this crisis out very quickly.
We could clean house of these racists, using the might of the state, instead we make staff suffer.
Anyone who racially abuses healthcare professionals – or indeed abuses anyone on ward in any way – should automatically go right to the back of the care queue. And be made to wait until there is anyone on duty willing to help them.
Of course they will, when a racist Reform MP can say it upsets her that „adverts are full of black people“ and not have to immediately resign in disgrace. Thugs and racists feel empowered to be racist as well.
Look at what the cowardice of people in power who will not directly challenge Racist Reform delivers to the country. Division, hate, and cruelty.
It is just as much the fault of those who will not hold Reform to account as it is those fascists themselves.
And there are politicians who want to normalise racism.
My father is currently in hospital, and I’ll be going to visit him later today.
The staff are generally great and I have no qualms over their medical competence, but of about eight nurses I now know by sight, I think only one of them is a native speaker of English. Several of the others do not speak English well enough for me to have an important conversation with them that I want to have. I’ve tried. They were confused. Several of them do, but they’re not always around. I’ve also had this experience recently with police officers and officials at a local council facility.
Now, let’s not get all excited about racism, because at least some of these people are – I would guess – Polish, or at least from eastern Europe, and are visually indistinguishable from people born and brought up in the UK. This is a concern about language ability, not anyone’s family background. My first girlfriend was Punjabi, so let’s get over that one.
The problem is that I suspect I’ll be decried for some sort of thought crime for raising this issue, and I wonder how much of that 55% is actually about language ability, not race. Do we know what the criteria were?
This is a disgrace. The bad press the NHS almost consistently gets is given some entitled patients free rein to do and say as they please. Unfortunately, it comes with the territory of healthcare free at the point of use.
Clearly the no tolerance approach is not working. Something more drastic needs to be put into practice. Whatever that is requires the political will which is absent at the moment.
Because the elites wanted to put one group against another to evade being revealed as the true enemies of the people.
Abuse of any type like this, be it racism, misogyny, homaphobia, transphobia, whatever needs to result in the idiot bigot getting kicked out and prosecuted.
Maybe send them to a therapist to work through their bigotry so they can go back to the hospital and not be a buthole
The workers have a right to a safe environment, and they are there to help people
If someone wants to be able to interact with the hospital system, then they need to be able to treat people like humans.
I don’t want this to be taken the wrong way, but the data starts in 2022. It’s probably the Halo effect of COVID („NHS heroes“) disappearing rather than the UK becoming more racist. You’d need to look at the long term trend before COVID to know for sure.
Anyone who abuses the healthcare staff should be barred from using the NHS.
Let them pay for their own private care.