⟡ SWANK NHS Racial Harm Archive ⟡
“The Receptionist Repeated the Slur.”
Filed: 24 March 2025
Reference: SWANK/SMH/RACE-01
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I. This Wasn’t De-escalation. It Was Institutional Echo.
This complaint documents a racial incident at St Mary’s Hospital witnessed by a patient in the Urgent Care Waiting Room on or around 18 March 2025.
At the centre of it:
A white woman accused of using a racial slur.
A Black woman visibly distressed and in tears.
A receptionist who repeated the slur aloud — in front of children, patients, and staff.
And no safeguarding response to the woman harmed.
This wasn’t an attempt to calm the situation.
It was an amplification of it — by the very institution meant to intervene.
II. What the Complaint Establishes
That NHS staff:
Repeated a racial slur out loud in a public setting
Offered no support or trauma-informed care to the Black woman harmed
Failed to de-escalate, protect, or record the incident in any visible way
Allowed the accused party to proceed to her appointment unchallenged
That the harm was not:
Addressed
Acknowledged
Or institutionally managed
That racism — when witnessed in NHS spaces — is often allowed to sit beside you in the waiting room, unbothered.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because racial trauma in healthcare spaces is not hypothetical — it is routine and observable.
Because silence from staff is not neutrality — it is reinforcement.
Because institutional procedures often mirror the biases they’re meant to correct.
We filed this because:
The Black woman was left unsupported.
The receptionist normalized the harm.
The incident played out like background noise in a room that should’ve intervened.
Let the record show:
There was no apology.
There was no escalation pathway.
There was no training in evidence that day.
Only a witness — and now, a record.
IV. SWANK’s Position
We do not accept NHS environments where racial slurs are treated as disputable noise.
We do not permit receptionists to repeat trauma under the guise of clarification.
We do not excuse silence from professionals in moments of visible harm.
Let the record show:
The names were unspoken.
The slur was not.
The harm was institutional.
And SWANK — does not wait for consensus before calling it racism.
This wasn’t miscommunication.
It was racial violence, moderated by policy inaction.
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