Breaking Breast Cancer News with Ethnic Minority in UK

In medicine, it's difficult to deliver bad news. A clinician's communication skills, understanding, and empathy are all required. There are both verbal and nonverbal aspects to communication. Nonverbal communication is required in different ways by different people, depending on their cultural and religious beliefs. When there are cultural, religious, and linguistic hurdles, breaking bad news to an ethnically diverse population is difficult. In 1948, the National Health Service was founded. Only 0.2 percent (53,000) of the overall population was ethnic minority. At the time, health-care providers and their patients had similar cultural origins. Census in 2011 indicates that the number of the ethnically diverse group has increased to 14% (2 million) in England and Wales. Eighty-six percent of the population was white British. Asians (Pakistani, Indian, Bangladeshi, and other) “groups” made up 7.5% of the population; black groups 3.4%; Chinese groups 0.7%; Arab groups 0.4%; and other groups 0.6%. This figure is expected to increase by 20%–30% in 2050. It is, therefore, important that a doctor working within the National Health Service in the UK, should be prepared to deal with patients who may have a different culture, faith, language, and set of beliefs. Bad news should be communicated to a patient in a supportive environment and directly in simple, but not blunt, terms. In this paper, I've discussed the many challenges/issues with communicating with such patients, as well as the available tools and ideas for improving their care. Unfortunately, no single technique can be applied to all because each patient should be treated as an individual, and as a result, different aspects are weighted differently in each consultation. As a result, hospitals must develop cultural and religious awareness in order for clinicians to be more accepting of their patients. This will not only improve the patient's experience, but it will also make the medical staff satisfied.