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

Victor Adebowale’s mother, Grace, who worked as an NHS nurse for 45 years. She died in January of suspected lung cancer. Photograph: Family handout/PA

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.

Victor Adebowale, the chair of the NHS Confederation, claimed his mother Grace’s lung cancer went undiagnosed because black people get “disproportionately poor” health service care.