Equality and diversity

Working Together – how health, social care and fire and rescue services can increase their reach, scale and impact through joint working

Work by the fire and rescue services to help reduce demand for other services through prevention, including health and social care, is being showcased in a new document ‘Working Together’. Underlying risk factors that ultimately result in fires, such as smoking and alcohol consumption, also have a strong impact on health. Fire and rescue services […]

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New appointments to tackle race equality across the NHS

NHS England is pleased to announce two senior appointments to ensure employees from black and ethnic minority (BME) backgrounds have equal access to career opportunities and receive fair treatment in all NHS workplaces. Following a competitive selection process, Yvonne Coghill OBE has been appointed as Director, Workforce Race Equality Standard Implementation, and Roger Kline has […]

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NHS takes action to tackle race inequality across the workforce

The NHS Equality and Diversity Council today announced action to ensure employees from black and ethnic minority (BME) backgrounds have equal access to career opportunities and fair treatment in the workplace. The move follows recent reports which have highlighted disparities in the number of BME people in senior leadership positions across the NHS, as well as lower levels of wellbeing amongst the BME population. The Council has pledged its commitment, subject to consultation […]

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System leaders sign Statement of Declaration on tackling health inequalities and advancing equality

At the System Leaders Forum on Tuesday 11 March Sir David Nicholson led the way in making his commitment to advancing equality and tackling health inequalities by signing a Statement of Declaration. By signing the declaration he has pledged to champion change on bringing together the equality and health inequalities agenda and raise ambition at […]

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‘We must tackle health inequalities’ says NHS England’s chief financial officer

New funding formula for local health commissioners more accurately reflects population changes and includes a specific deprivation measure Funding for NHS commissioners will rise from £96bn to £100bn over the next two years, so despite wider public sector budget cuts the NHS is being protected from inflation at a time of austerity.  Changes to the […]

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Sir David Nicholson announces refresh of NHS equality toolkit

Today (4 November) at the London NHS Values Summit, NHS England Chief Executive, Sir David Nicholson, announced a refresh of a toolkit designed to ensure NHS organisations follow best practice in delivering services that are free of discrimination and meet the requirements of the Equality Act 2010. Sir David announced the refresh of the Equality […]

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NHS England hosts NHS Values Summit, 17 May 2013

NHS England is to host its first NHS Values Summit on Friday 17 May. The event, which is being held in Bristol, will enable leaders from health and social care and staff, patients and local community representatives to share insights into how people’s differences can affect their experiences, quality of care and health outcomes. Prof […]

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NHS England Board agrees interim equality objectives

On 12 April, the NHS England Board agreed Putting Patients First: the NHS England Business Plan for 2013/14-2015/6. We have set ourselves three interim equality objectives for April to October 2013, which will ensure that our own policy making, decisions and activities are compliant with the public sector Equality Duty, and provide system leadership to […]

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