Senior health figure accuses NHS of racism over care given to dying mother

<p>Victor Adebowale says failure to detect his mother’s cancer was example of ‘black service, not NHS service’</p><p>A senior figure in the health service has criticised it for deep-seated racism after his mother “got a black service, not an NHS service” before she died.</p><p><a href="https://www.nhsconfed.org/people/victor-adebowale-cbe">Victor Adebowale</a>, the chair of the NHS Confederation, claimed his mother Grace’s lung cancer went undiagnosed because black people get “disproportionately poor” health service care.</p><p>Black British mothers are up to four times more likely to die during pregnancy or within six weeks of giving birth than white mothers.</p><p>Those of black and African or Caribbean origin are twice as likely to have a stroke, and younger, than white counterparts.</p><p>Black African patients are two and a half times more likely to be detained under the Mental Health Act than white British patients.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/14/senior-health-figure-accuses-nhs-of-racism-over-care-given-to-dying-mother">Continue reading...</a>