Updated interactive dashboard showing performance for the English NHS Cancer waiting times standards 2022/23 - tabsoft.co/3IcG7Sn
For more information on the English NHS Cancer waiting times standards - bit.ly/3S7ujDH#NHS#cancer#Tableau#data
Afrori, a Brighton bookshop and the UK’s largest supplier of books by Black authors, is facing closure. They need to sell 1,000 books by next week. Please support if you can: afroribooks.co.uk
BREAKING: The Sickle Cell Emergency Care Day Unit at The Royal London Hospital’s in will now reopen. Campaigners had fought for the unit not to close & according to the Sickle Cell Society, after discussions, the vital facility will reopen. 🙌🏾🙌🏾open.substack.com/pub/meliss…
A Black teaching assistant accused of intimidating pupils because she had an “angry face” has won claims of race discrimination, harassment and unfair dismissal.
Sandra Moody successfully brought claims against Southwark Council in 2025 peoplemanagement.co.uk/artic…
This doctor tells Black women what to say if they want their pain to be taken seriously in a medical setting
We need all the help we can get!
Salute 🫡 to this Doctor❤️✊🏾
#healthcare#blackpatients#blackwomen
Facial recognition technology is to be rolled out across England and Wales, under sweeping reforms announced by the home secretary
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UPDATE: Barts Health NHS has released a statement on the emergency sickle cell unit closure saying that they ‘recognise the strength of feeling’ received by the unit. However, it won’t be staying open. Campaigners say they are ‘not happy.’
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A ‘lifeline’ sickle cell emergency unit won’t stay open despite calls from campaigners & patient fears of ‘A&E hell’ when its pilot ends. Delo Biye who travels 10 miles just to get to the service told me he is ‘angered’ by the news but won’t give up open.substack.com/pub/meliss…
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The Black Maternity Experience Survey is now LIVE! We are calling on Black women and Black mixed-heritage women/ birthing people in the UK to share their maternity experiences in the Black Maternity Experience Survey 2025!
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*Missing Child**
15 year old Zantae has been missing for a month - he was last seen in Lewisham on September 9th.
His family are extremely concerned for his welfare.
If you have any information, please come forward and call 101, quoting reference 01/821269/24
A woman has been jailed for her involvement in an assault on a 15yo Black schoolgirl near Thomas Knyvett College, in Ashford, Surrey that was filmed & went viral. Winnie Connors, 41, has been sentenced to 20 months in prison bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c51n…
NEW: The search to locate a two-year-old boy who fell into the River Soar has entered its third week. 💔
Xielo Maruziva was reported to have fallen into the river in the Marsden Lane area of Aylestone Meadows at around 5pm on Sunday 18 February.
Today marks the start of #LymphoedemaAwareness Week, a condition affecting around 60,000 people in London alone. We're working on a pan-London programme to change the way that lymphoedema services are delivered across our city. Find out more: transformationpartners.nhs.u…
We're running a survey until 26 January to understand the experience of care and treatment of people living with #lymphoedema. to ensure that everyone living with lymphoedema receives the right care, by the right professional, at the right time pulse.ly/pljkr6vzis@NHS_SELCA