Overview
- Multiple trust leaders report Black and Asian community staff feeling deliberately intimidated near widespread St George’s flags, with some areas described as no-go zones.
- Leaders cite instances of aggression toward district nurses and other community clinicians during home visits in areas where flags were prominently displayed.
- One staff member who asked flag installers to move so she could park was filmed, followed, and abused for several days, according to an anonymised account.
- NHS Providers’ annual survey found 45% of senior managers extremely concerned and a further 33% moderately concerned about discrimination from patients and the public.
- NHS Providers chief Daniel Elkes highlighted the service’s reliance on a diverse, internationally recruited workforce and warned a five-day resident doctors’ strike starting Friday could erase recent improvements.