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Exclusive: Nurses call for an end to ‘hair racism’ in the NHS
Action must be taken to stamp out “hair racism” in the NHS by scrapping dress code policies which discriminate against Black nurses, a team of nursing academics and professionals have warned.
New research from nursing lecturers at Middlesex University London and nurse colleagues across the capital and in the US and Australia, has placed a stark lens on discrimination faced by Black nurses because of their hairstyles.
“Black nurses will be just as knowledgeable, caring, competent and professional with their Black hairstyle as they would be with this part of their identity stripped away”