Covid-19: BAME NHS Staff

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff Excerpts

Tuesday 19th May 2020 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB)]

Given the association that there seems to be between a wide range of factors, are these being centrally collated? Are the Government producing guidance on, for example, vitamin D supplementation in the event of deficiency being detected, so that the national results are rapidly rolled out, and those cases where risk is discovered can be managed and supported?

[Lord Bethell]

I reassure the noble Baroness that the data is being centrally aggregated. ONS has published figures on ethnicity and the CMO and PHE are both scrutinising them. On their list of issues to consider is the role of vitamin D, where the evidence is interesting but unproven.