Ethnicity

Pharmacy regulator to blind fitness-to-practise investigations against racial bias

The General Pharmaceutical Council is to introduce blind reviews during its fitness-to-practise investigations in an attempt to remove bias from the system. …

Pharmacy Schools Council to ensure BAME patient communities are ‘properly reflected’ in MPharm curriculum

The Pharmacy Schools’ Council has said it will conduct an “examination of teaching practices and materials” in the MPharm curriculum to ensure that it properly reflects black, Asian and minority ethnic patient communities.…

Disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on BAME populations not explained by cardiometabolic factors, vitamin D or deprivation, researchers find

Variations in cardiometabolic factors, vitamin D levels and socioeconomic or behavioural factors do not adequately explain why COVID-19 disproportionately affects black, Asian and minority ethnic populations.…

More than two-thirds of BAME pharmacists yet to receive COVID-19 risk assessments, survey reveals

More than two-thirds of black, Asian and minority ethnic pharmacists say they have still not been offered COVID-19 risk assessments almost two months after NHS England said employers should risk assess all staff.…

Committee considering ethnicity as a factor in prioritising COVID-19 vaccinations

Government advisers will consider whether ethnicity and deprivation should be taken into account when prioritising who will receive a COVID-19 vaccine first, when one becomes available.…

Well Pharmacy to risk assess all staff for COVID-19 from next week

Well Pharmacy will risk assess all staff for their susceptibility to COVID-19 from next week, the multiple has said.…

BAME patients less likely to take up community pharmacy services in North West London

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the interplay between ethnicity and poor health outcomes has rightly come under scrutiny. A high proportion of those who have lost their lives to COVID-19 were from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) groups. Pharmacy rarely features in investigations into thi…

It should not have taken another pandemic to highlight BAME health inequalities

The high proportion of people from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups dying from COVID-19 has brought health inequalities between ethnic groups to the fore, but this should have been looked into long before the pandemic began.…

Pharmacy leaders concerned over lack of widespread COVID-19 risk assessment for BAME staff

Pharmacy leaders concerned over lack of widespread risk assessment for BAME staff Source: Mclean Reseach has shown that people of a black, Asian or minority ethnic background are more susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection than those who are not Pha…

NHS England advises pharmacies to ‘risk assess’ BAME staff for susceptibility to COVID-19

NHS England has advised pharmacies to risk assess staff who may be particularly vulnerable to COVID-19, including those from a black, Asian or minority ethnic background.…