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NHS staff should be banned from wearing pro-Palestinian badges, report recommends
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- The measure is one of several recommendations in a review by the government's independent adviser on antisemitism, Lord Mann.
- The review examined antisemitism and other forms of racism within the NHS.
- Other recommendations made by Lord Mann include stronger accountability for NHS managers, improved recording and monitoring of racist incidents, and enabling more patients to record their ethnicity as Jewish.
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Judith Moritz,special correspondentand Daniel Wittenberg BBCIt is understood the report will also recommend staff should not wear uniform at certain protests NHS staff could be barred from wearing political badges on their uniforms, such as pro-Palestinian symbols, as part of proposals to help tackle antisemitism.
The measure is one of several recommendations in a review by the government's independent adviser on antisemitism, Lord Mann.
The review examined antisemitism and other forms of racism within the NHS. Its findings include that some Jewish patients and NHS staff have felt the need to hide their religious identity.
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