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The Latest Breaking News from the NHS Race and Health Observatory

NHS improves genetic testing for minority ethnic cancer patients

Exclusive: Pre-chemotherapy tests previously did not look for gene variant that put some ethnicities at higher risk of serious side effects

The Guardian - UK

Health leader condemns ‘black service, not NHS service’ received by mother

He said that inequity ‘still exists within the NHS’.

The Independent UK

Black and Asian people find it harder to access NHS mental health services, report finds

Patients from minority ethnic backgrounds wait longer for, and have worse outcomes from, referrals than white counterparts

The Guardian - UK

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Female students ‘more than twice as likely’ to be affected by poor mental health, research shows

One in six undergrads reports experiencing mental health challenges during their studies.

The Independent UK

Student mental health problems up by nearly a third, research shows

One in six undergrads reports experiencing mental health challenges during their studies.

The Independent UK

NHS urges breast cancer patients from minority backgrounds to participate in trials

Research shows young black women more likely to have more aggressive cancer and receive poorer care

The Guardian - UK

Project launched to bust myth that cancer is a ‘white person’s disease’

The work aims to increase the number of Black, Asian and ethnic minority patients taking part in clinical trials.

The Independent UK

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Regulator sounds alarm over ‘culture’ in maternity care

It comes after a series of high profile reviews into maternity services.

The Independent UK

Babies could be put at risk due to ‘skin colour tests’ – report

Current tests are decades old and ‘mainly based on white European babies’.

The Independent UK

Tests to assess newborns’ health not effective for BAME babies in UK

Minority ethnic newborns risk late diagnosis and poorer health as guidance was developed for white European babies in 1952

The Guardian - UK

MPs condemn failure to tackle ‘glaring’ racial inequalities in UK maternal health

Committee says too many black women receive treatment that falls short of acceptable standards

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