National policies have been introduced as the result of the pandemic and they have negatively affected those who come from ethnic minorities. It would seem that it is affecting end of life care more and this is not acceptable to say the least. Those who work in private nursing and in the homecare setting have voiced their opinion on this and they have stated that it is just not good enough. King’s College London have chosen to lead the study and they have collected well over 277 services across the UK. They have done this via an online survey and they based a lot of their information on the first wave of the pandemic. They have found that the Covid-19 policies that were in place happened to impact those who are from minority groups. On top of this, it makes the at-risk population more vulnerable overall. Studies have found that those who are from minority backgrounds were affected when it comes to visiting restrictions. In some instances, patients would have had large families involved with providing care but this was not allowed. Muslim families have come out to say that the strict visitation policies are not suitable and that having more people at the time of a person’s death is associated with them having a much better afterlife.

On top of this, ethnic minorities feel as though there are communication challenges between families and staff members as well. They find it hard to understand English when it might not be their first language and this has been compounded by the amount of PPE that is available. On top of this, you also have masks which stop the people involved in the situation from being able to communicate as well as they might have been able to.