NHS to tackle antisemitism after report finds Jewish staff and patients ‘routinely ostracised’

Key points

• The NHS is taking action to tackle antisemitism after a government-ordered report found that Jewish patients and staff face “routine ostracism” in the service.
• Anti-Jewish hatred in the NHS means some patients hide their identity and staff “suffer in silence”, a review by Lord Mann, the government’s adviser on antisemitism, has found.
• Moves to combat it will see NHS staff’s freedom to display political symbols on their uniforms restricted and bosses of the service’s 205 health trusts in England given antisemitism training.
• 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 “shocking examples of intimidation...