Britain’s National Health Service will ban staff from wearing political badges, including pro-Palestinian symbols, under new rules aimed at fighting antisemitism within the health system.

Health Secretary James Murray said Thursday that the NHS will accept the recommendation made in an independent review by Lord John Mann.

The guidance will be published “shortly,” he said.

The announcement came shortly after a Jewish doctor in London told ITV news that colleagues had told him they would not treat patients who come from Israel even if their life was in danger. The UK’s Department of Health called the comments “shocking” and said that “it is unacceptable that people do not currently feel safe working in and using the health service,” according to The Jewish Chronicle.

Mann was commissioned in October 2025 to lead a review into how the NHS and its regulatory system report and handle antisemitism and other forms of racism. The report was ordered “in the wake of a series of horrific attacks on the Jewish community across the country, including shocking examples of intimidation and abuse within the health service,” the Department of Health and Social Care said in a press release.

Between October 2023 and July 2025, 99 antisemitic incidents were recorded in the healthcare sector, according to a report published last year by the Antisemitism Policy Trust.

Mann’s review found that Jewish staff in parts of the NHS report “routine ostracism” and increasing discrimination from colleagues, leading some Jewish employees to consider leaving the health service.

It also identified........

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