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Staff working at a mental health unit experienced ‘racism’ both from patients and fellow colleagues, a new review has revealed.
Park House is a mental health unit at North Manchester General Hospital, run by the troubled Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH). The unit was investigated amid concerns about its culture, treatment and discriminatory practices affecting staff.
The review, carried out by GMMH, found racism was ‘present within cultural and social structures, systems and within our organisation’. Ethnically-diverse staff were found to have felt unsafe because of ‘racial abuse from patients and that abuse has not been dealt with effectively resulting in loss of faith in the system’.
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Along with abuse from patients, the staff ‘felt they have experienced fewer opportunities in relation to career progression resulting in a lack of representation in senior leadership roles’. They also ‘felt they experienced disproportionate disciplinary action at higher rates compared to their white counterparts’.
A ‘fear over no action being taken or fear of retribution’ was found to have led staff to be ‘unable to raise concerns’, the review concluded. Staff also felt ‘generally excluded and unwelcome which has led to a perception of divisions between wards’, said GMMH.
“The review focused on listening to and hearing the lived experiences of people that work at Park House,” the findings read, published last week. “It is clear that our ethnically diverse staff have experienced inequalities in the form of racism.
“We recognise that racism is not only an individual issue but is also present within cultural and
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