Unequal impact of COVID-19: BAME disproportionality
With the whole country and world waking up to the deeply entrenched structural equalities that have impacted the lives of our Black, Asian and other ethnic Minority communities, there is a collective appreciation that we need to go further to dismantle a system, and create new ones.
Local and national evidence shows that people from a Black, Asian or minority ethnic background are disproportionately impacted by Covid-19.
In response to this, the council implemented this working group to carry out a rapid 6-week programme to gather evidence of the impacts of Covid-19 and develop actions for supporting our residents during this time and beyond.
Intensive work has been underway to understand and take action to address the direct and indirect health impacts of Covid-19 on our Black, Asian and other Ethnic Minority communities in Camden, and to ensure that individuals and communities are protected both now and through the next phase of the pandemic, but also to bring about wider systemic change.
This document is us working in the open with you and shows the information that was provided by different service areas to the member-led working group for comment and to develop actions going forward.
The Black, Asian and other Ethnic Minority Inequalities and Covid-19 Working Group has benefitted from evidence and the lived experience of our residents, VCS partners, professionals and Members in guiding and shaping the Council’s response from bureaucratic to relational.
In this document you will find summaries of the data included in these presentation slides and the relevant links to documents.

Unequal impact of COVID-19: BAME disproportionality
Camden Demographics of Shielded Population by location age ethnicity deprivation gender GPs and reason for shielding.

Unequal impact of COVID-19: BAME disproportionality
This slide pack highlights immediate and evolving labour market implications, referencing the specific experience of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) residents.

Unequal impact of COVID-19: BAME disproportionality
The shielded population are those that have been defined by Government on medical grounds as medically vulnerable due to a clinical condition that puts them at High risk of developing complications from COVID-19 infection.

Those recommended to shield include:
• Organ transplant recipients
• Pregnant women with congenital heart conditions
• Those with rare diseases such as homozygous sickle cell, SCID and others
• Those on immunosuppression therapies
• People with specific cancers or those with cancer undergoing chemo/radiotherapy.

Camden has so far received the contact details of almost 8,000 residents identified by central Government, with more records likely in future.

The details received do not contain the personal characteristics of those on the list, although we have received an overview from North Central London NHS.
(note: above is broken down into shielder’s location and BAME ward profile, shielding population by ethnicity, shielded food need and dietary requirements).

New analysis on cancer screening inequality (January 2022) - Appendix
The Camden and Islington Public Health Intelligence team has recently completed an equity analysis to explore existing disparities in cancer screenings looking at the North Central London population groups before the COVID-19 pandemic.
This analysis highlights the differences in both bowel screening coverage and cervical screening coverage between certain groups (for example, by gender, age, race/ethnicity and disability status) and GP practice level. There is also an association with deprivation, and lower bower screening coverage is seen in those who smoke, those who are obese, and those with a mental health condition (both depression or severe mental health).
This analysis will help identify opportunities for local strategies and prevention to help improve overall cancer screening, and reduce inequity gaps.

Equality Impact Assessment profiles for Camden wards (2022) using the latest data from the 2021 Census
Note. amended 18 Apr-23 disability/long-term illness proportions updated with correct % for each ward.

Residence Type by Sex by Age
Table Population: All usual residents