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Valuing Equality and Diversity
NHS Lincolnshire is committed to developing an organisational culture that promotes Equality and Diversity. As a public authority it is a legal obligation under existing legislation to promote equality in the area of disability, race and gender. We have developed strategies and initiatives in line with current legislation that set out how we meet the duties and are extending this to include other areas of equality we cover, namely, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, homeless and carers.
NHS Lincolnshire embraces and will aspire to become an exemplar organisation in relation to our business planning processes and equality and human rights. Equality and Human Rights is integral part of NHS Lincolnshire’s organisational culture. This will be measured through impact assessing our commissioning decisions and publication of progress against the duty on our website.
We are committed to ensuring that all our staff has the skills, knowledge and support to commission services that are fair and equitable whilst respecting individual needs regardless of their race, disability, age, gender, sexual orientation, or religion or belief.
Our Engagement on the Objectives and Equality Delivery System (EDS) Plan
Engagement on the objectives and EDS Plan was carried out with a range of stakeholders using a range of methods, to include a stakeholder event on13 June 2011 to gain the views of people with protected characteristics about the performance of the NHS in Lincolnshire against the four goals and 18 outcomes of the EDS. In all, over 100 individuals took part. The stakeholders who gave their views included the following:
- Patients
- Carers
- Community and Voluntary Groups
- NHS Lincolnshire Staff Members
Stakeholders were asked for their views in respect of:
- What they liked about NHS Services in Lincolnshire
- What further improvements NHS Lincolnshire should make
- How NHS Lincolnshire should involve and get feedback from everyone
Further detail of the sample feedback received from patients, carers and community groups can be found in Appendix C and sample feedback from staff can be found in Appendix D, of the NHS Lincolnshire Equality and Diversity Strategy along with the organisation’s approach to equality and diversity; both as an employer and as a healthcare commissioner.
NHS Lincolnshire Objectives and EDS Plan
We have a commitment to ensure that equality and diversity is integrated at the core of our business so it is ‘everyone’s business’ and responds to the needs of our staff, stakeholders, patients and their representatives and the public. Through our comprehensive engagement activity we, therefore, welcome the opportunity to publish our Objectives and EDS Plan; and, within this, we include our priorities and actions from within our Single Equality Schemes:
Five Objectives for 2011-2013
EDS Plan 2011 - 2013
Workforce Monitoring
NHS Lincolnshire is committed to the vision of equality and human rights in healthcare for patients and all staff. We aim to be an employer of choice that people want to work for, and be seen as a leader in good employment practices both regionally and nationally. The aim is for all staff to realise their full potential, in an environment characterised by dignity, human rights and mutual respect. The collection and analysis of workforce statistics by groups of staff with protected characteristics is an important area of NHS Lincolnshire’s work.
For the full workforce monitoring information for 2010/11, please see Appendix F of the NHSL Equality and Diversity Strategy
Workforce Monitoring Reports for 2011/12 can be found here
Timeline
These documents set out our long term commitment to equality, diversity, human rights and inclusion and it will be monitored against robust evidence of compliance and regularly refreshed to ensure its relevance.
Keeping people updated on our delivery against the Objectives and EDS Plans
We have a range of communication channels in place (for example, printed publications for staff, patients and the public, the organisation’s website, email, regular meetings). These means of communications will enable us to share information to all stakeholders on the progress being made on our EDS Plan 2011 - 2013.
An EDS Governance Group has been established, including a Community Panel, made up of Lincolnshire Local Involvement Network/HealthWatch Pathfinder members, representatives from stakeholder groups and members of NHS staff.
Hence the governance for Equality and Human Rights in NHS Lincolnshire is as follows:
EDS Governance Group
and Community Panel
County-wide Equality and Human
Rights Network
NHS Lincolnshire Equality
and Human Rights
Steering Group
Working in partnership with the public sector, the local HealthWatch Pathfinder, third sector community representatives to regularly review and adapt communication and engagement channels with stakeholders, patients, their representatives and the public will be an important part of our work.
For further information please contact the Equality & Human Rights team:
Tel: 07825 862082 or
Email: nodiscrimination@lpct.nhs.uk
We aim to provide healthcare services that are:
1.fair and equal for everyone
2. appropriate to everyone’s needs regardless of age, disability, race, ethnic or national origin, gender, religion, belief, sexual orientation, socially excluded, responsibilities as a carer.
As a NHS Trust we commission (buy) health services from a range of individuals / organisations such as General Practitioners, Community Pharmacists, General Dental Practitioners and Community Optometrists etc.
It is equally important to us that these services are fair and available to everyone whilst meeting everyone's needs.
NHS Lincolnshire is committed to the vision of Equalities and Human Rights in healthcare for patients and our staff. We aim to be an employer of choice that people want to work for, and is seen as a leader in good employment practices both regionally and nationally. The aim is for all our staff to realise their full potential, in an environment characterised by Dignity/Human Rights and Mutual Respect.
Equality of Opportunity Statement
Equality promotes the philosophy that all individuals should experience the same level of dignity, value, respect and opportunities. NHS Lincolnshire is fully committed to providing equality of opportunity in employment, commissioning, service delivery and when engaging with our local community, including patients, carers and the public. NHS Lincolnshire we will aim to ensure that its job applicants, employees, service users and carers do not experience any form of discrimination.
Diversity Statement
Diversity encompasses the acceptance and respect of difference. It is about recognising, respecting and valuing differences between individuals whether they are job applicants, our workforce, service users, carers and or members of the public. Diversity requires treatment that is right for the individual whilst accounting for inequalities and disadvantages.
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