The dangers of a woke NHS
The health service has no business indoctrinating its staff in critical race theory.
What makes someone a good nurse? Knowledge of biology and medicine, for sure. Practical skills like dressing wounds, measuring blood pressure and administering medication must be high up the list, too. How about more personal attributes and values? Composure, patience and sympathy are no doubt useful. But a belief that ‘whiteness’ is a problem? An understanding that society is systemically racist? I’m not convinced.
Evidence of the crisis in the NHS is everywhere we look. People struggle to see a doctor, face lengthy waits for an ambulance and unbearable delays for routine operations. Yet rather than focusing on improving frontline patient care, an ever-expanding, highly paid managerial elite is wasting its time and money promoting woke values to Britain’s largest workforce.
Cash is found for equality, diversity and inclusion officers, who busy themselves with tasks such as compiling an ‘A to Z of Diversity’ to instruct staff on how ‘white women can be actionable allies to people of colour’. There are training courses on the history and principles of the Black Lives Matter movement. There are LGBT-themed ‘tea and rainbow cake’ picnics. And there is training on the importance of pronouns.