NHS looks into taking BAME staff off frontline for their safety
Drive to risk-assess minority ethnic workers aims to reduce higher death rate from Covid-19
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NHS staff from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds will be given different roles away from the frontline under plans to reduce their disproportionately high death rate from Covid-19.
BAME personnel should be “risk-assessed” and reassigned to duties that leave them at lesser risk of contracting coronavirus, under guidance set out by NHS bosses in England.
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