The coronavirus pandemic has shown that COVID-19 has had a disproportionate impact upon some of our most vulnerable patients, due to the effects of the disease. To assist practices in ensuring they have relevant information to help manage the care of our patients, the NHS has asked practices to maintain and record the ethnicity of our patients, as well as those at risk from long term conditions and management of these conditions. Patients are free to decline to provide details regarding ethnicity if they would prefer no to.