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The NHS is taking action to tackle antisemitism after a government-ordered report found that Jewish patients and staff face \u201croutine ostracism\u201d in the service.<\/p>\n
Anti-Jewish hatred in the NHS means some patients hide their identity and staff \u201csuffer in silence\u201d, a review by Lord Mann, the government\u2019s adviser on antisemitism, has found.<\/p>\n
Moves to combat it will see NHS staff\u2019s freedom to display political symbols on their uniforms restricted and bosses of the service\u2019s 205 health trusts in England given antisemitism training.<\/p>\n
Antisemitism is so rife in the NHS that it threatens its basis as a universal service, with Jews not confident they will receive proper treatment, Mann will say in his 60-page report, which will be published on Thursday. He will outline how some Jewish patients have decided not to seek treatment or put off having important care as a result of antisemitism and highlight \u201cshocking examples of intimidation and abuse within the health service\u201d.<\/p>\n
Wes Streeting commissioned Mann last year when he was health secretary to investigate antisemitism in the NHS after reports that several doctors had made comments displaying hatred of Jews.<\/p>\n
<\/span>Wes Streeting, the then-health secretary, commissioned the report into antisemitism in the NHS.<\/span> Photograph: Tolga Akmen\/EPA<\/p>\n Two doctors, Manoj Sen and Mohammed Asif Munaf, have recently been struck off the medical register and banned from practising medicine in the UK because of antisemitic behaviour.<\/p>\n Another doctor, Rahmeh Aladwan, is due to go on trial at Bristol crown court next year on charges of inviting support for Hamas \u2013 a proscribed organisation \u2013 stirring up racial hatred and using threatening and insulting words at a protest.<\/p>\n She is alleged to have posted \u201cfree the world from Jewish supremacy\u201d on social media, and to have posted that she did not condemn Hamas or its 7 October 2023 attack on Israel, but did \u201ccondemn the existence of Israel\u201d.<\/p>\n Mann\u2019s report sets out changes the NHS will now push through as an urgent priority to become a \u201cresponsible and inclusive employer\u201d.<\/p>\n The moves will target all forms of racism and discrimination in the NHS, including racism against black and ethnic minority staff and Islamophobia, not only antisemitism.<\/p>\n Jewish staff are the only religious group in the NHS workforce who report that they are experiencing growing discrimination by colleagues, the latest staff survey found. Some have been so distressed by their experience that they are considering quitting the service.<\/p>\n \u201cJewish people have to be confident they will receive the same treatment as everyone else, at all times in all situations. If people feel, as they do, that some have to hide their identity as patients or suffer in silence as staff, then the universality of the NHS is fundamentally breached,\u201d Mann said.<\/p>\n NHS care providers such as hospitals will become \u201cthe first line of defence against racism and discrimination for patients and staff\u201d. The chairs and chief executives of all trusts will undergo new mandatory training in anti-racism, including antisemitism, within the next six months.<\/p>\n \u201cSince Lord Mann was commissioned to undertake this review, the experience of the Jewish community in this country has only worsened. The arson attack on a Hatzola ambulance station in Golders Green in April was the clearest sign yet of how growing antisemitism in our society has reached our health services,\u201d said Rebecca Gray, a director at the NHS Alliance.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is vital that Jewish staff and patients feel safe at work, are able to practise and seek treatment without fear of prejudice or abuse, and are provided with the respect and dignity we all deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n Streeting last year said the NHS is bearing the brunt of Britain\u2019s return to \u201cugly\u201d 1970s and 1980s-style racism.<\/p>\n <\/span>Helen Morgan, the Liberal Democrat health spokesperson, said the \u2018poison\u2019 of all forms of racism in the NHS must be stopped.<\/span> Photograph: Christopher Furlong\/Getty Images<\/p>\n Prof Nicola Ranger, the general secretary and chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, said: \u201cIt\u2019s absolutely essential that staff are safe at work, but the reality is racism in the NHS is on the rise, as is violence, aggression and sexual harassment. That these behaviours have become so normalised is alarming.\u201d<\/p>\n The General Medical Council, which regulates doctors in the UK, received 779 complaints of alleged antisemitism by UK doctors between October 2023 and December 2025, often about social media posts. Many complaints were against the same doctor. It investigated 86 cases.<\/p>\n As well as erasing Sen and Munaf from its register it also advised four other doctors about their behaviour, warned three others and sought \u201cundertakings\u201d from another. It is still examining 31 other cases.<\/p>\n Helen Morgan, the Liberal Democrat health spokesperson, welcomed the action to stop the spread of the \u201cpoison\u201d of all forms of racism in the NHS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The NHS is taking action to tackle antisemitism after a government-ordered report found that Jewish patients and staff face \u201croutine ostracism\u201d in the service. 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