Hafal has called on the Welsh Assembly Government to tackle the scandal of institutional racism in the NHS by implementing the recommendations of the Rocky Bennett inquiry findings as a matter of urgency.
The inquiry, published on Thursday, followed the tragic death of David “Rocky” Bennett, a 38 year old African Carribean man with schizophrenia, who died in 1998 after being restrained by nurses at the Norvic clinic, a medium secure unit in Norwich. The inquiry found that institutional racism is ‘endemic’ in the NHS and makes 22 wide ranging recommendations.
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