{"id":87654,"date":"2025-10-20T23:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T23:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/87654\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T23:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T23:37:11","slug":"cumbria-health-workers-face-increasing-levels-of-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/87654\/","title":{"rendered":"Cumbria health workers face increasing levels of racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Staff at an NHS trust are dealing with an &#8220;increasing amount of racial discrimination&#8221;, according to one hospital boss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 13% of staff working at North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation (NCIC) are from an ethnic minority background &#8211; with 72 countries represented &#8211; but some employees have been subject to &#8220;aggression or sometimes even physical violence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Acting Chief Executive Trudie Davies said it was &#8220;very sad and upsetting&#8221; to learn hospital staff had experienced racism while at work and in the community, adding they &#8220;deserve to be treated with respect and kindness&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;At NCIC we will not tolerate racism, violence or aggression of any sort,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Staff at an NHS trust are dealing with an &#8220;increasing amount of racial discrimination&#8221;, according to one hospital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":["post-87654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}