Cobra beer tycoon is elected the first BAME head of CBI: Lord Bilimoria pledges to fight for better boardroom diversity By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 23:17 BST, 16 June 2020 | Updated: 23:17 BST, 16 June 2020 The Indian-born tycoon behind Cobra beer has been elected as the first BAME boss of … Read more
Real change does not happen with T-shirts or slogans. Real change is one great idea and people brave enough to implement it. Over to you, at the Premier League. Over to you, at the Football League. Over to you, UEFA and FIFA. The Premier League players now pressing for a BAME coach to be installed … Read more
Top stars want Premier League to bring in quota of at least one BAME coach at EVERY club amid pressure to increase diversity – and talks have been held with the FA, who introduced same rule with England teams Premier League captains back a proposal to increase quota of BAME coaches The FA uses a … Read more
Half of pregnant women admitted to hospital with coronavirus were from BAME backgrounds, study finds The study is from Oxford University’s Nuffield Department of Population Health It found 233 out of 427 pregnant women in hospital with coronavirus were BAME Five women died, three of them directly from coronavirus-related complications Here’s how to help people … Read more
Black, Asian and minority ethnic people are 54% more likely to be fined under coronavirus lockdown rules than white people, police figures reveal Police statistics reveal that there have been 13,445 fines handed out in lockdown An investigation has shown 22 per cent of these account for BAME people This is despite BAME people making up only … Read more
Only one white doctor has died from Covid-19 while 22 Black, Asian and ethnic minority doctors have lost their lives, as concerns grow over the ‘disproportionate impact’ of Covid-19 on the BAME community. Mounting data from NHS intensive care units shows BAME populations face a greater risk of suffering complications than white Britons, prompting the government … Read more
NHS workers from black or ethnic minority groups should be removed from the frontline over concerns they are more vulnerable to coronavirus – but it will heap pressure on their white colleagues, the Royal College of Surgeons has said today. Professor Neil Mortensen, president-elect of the RCS, said until experts work out why almost two-thirds of NHS staff … Read more
The NHS is to investigate the disproportionate impact of coronavirus on black and minority ethnic Britons, Downing Street confirmed today. The health service and Public Health England will review evidence after data on patients with confirmed Covid-19 from the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (ICNARC) suggested ethnic minorities are over-represented. The first 10 doctors … Read more
The head of the British Medical Association has called on the government to investigate if and why black, Asian and minority ethnic people are more likely to die from coronavirus. The first ten doctors to die in the UK from Covid-19 were all BAME – with ancestry from regions including Asia, the Middle East and … Read more