NHS professionals have warned that the UK is racing towards the second wave of coronavirus with ministers concerned that the black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community may once again be forced to \u201cshoulder the burden of this pandemic\u201d if a \u201cplan of action\u201d is not in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The warning comes after a research study highlighted that nearly 70% of the 1700 doctors surveyed \u201cwere likely to quit the NHS\u201d frustrated with the government\u2019s handling of the pandemic. This warning from the Doctor\u2019s Association of UK (DAUK) should be a red flag for the Health Secretary especially after 600 healthcare workers, a majority of them from BAME backgrounds, lost their lives during the first wave of coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Concerned about some BAME doctors who are still working in high-risk environments, Dr. Rinesh Parmar, Chair of DAUK has disclosed that \u201cit is still an on-going problem.\u201d Speaking exclusively to Asian Voice, he said, \u201cInstitutions have previously failed to complete risk assessments and take actions based on those risk assessments to safeguard our BAME colleagues. Some individuals who are deemed high-risk have not been removed from high-risk environments. Although the government has assured that the published BAME review has been forwarded to the Equalities Minister\u2019s workstream, we have not heard anything from them in terms of how the work would be taken forward. We are heading towards a potential second Covid-19 wave and this is not something that can be put on the back burner. It needs to be addressed now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NHS professionals have warned that the UK is racing towards the second wave of coronavirus with ministers concerned that the black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community may once again be forced to \u201cshoulder the burden of this pandemic\u201d if a \u201cplan of action\u201d is not in place.This warning from the Doctor\u2019s Association of UK (DAUK) should be a red flag for the Health Secretary especially after 600 healthcare workers, a majority of them from BAME backgrounds, lost their lives during the first wave of coronavirus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[38,106,39,46,33,34,42],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protect-the-frontline","tag-dauk","tag-doctors-association","tag-doctors-association-uk","tag-dr-rinesh-parmar","tag-press","tag-press-covid-19","tag-the-doctors-association-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}