Your skin colour shouldn't determine how much pain relief you get in an NHS hospital — but the evidence says it does, from the delivery room to the deathbed. A major Guardian investigation, drawing on data from more than 2.7 million births across the UK, has laid bare what experts are calling an "ethnicity pain gap": patients from Black and Asian backgrounds are systematically less likely to have their pain believed, assessed, or adequately treated.

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