Indigenous patients suffer racial bias in hospitals, Naomi Williams inquest told

Standard of care is worse, expert says, and Indigenous people are five times more likely to be discharged than non-Indigenous

Indigenous Australians suffer “implict racial bias” when presenting for hospital treatment, a coronial inquiry into the death of Naomi Williams has heard.

The Indigenous caseworker died of a treatable infection at a small rural hospital in New South Wales in 2016.

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