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Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Overview

Equality, diversity and inclusion: Read our WeBelong strategy to find out how we are creating an equitable organisation.

NHS England: NHS England and NHS Improvement’s Equality Objectives for 2022/23 – 2023/24. This report sets out how NHS England and NHS Improvement has reviewed our existing equality objectives and developed new equality objectives for 2022/23 and 2023/24 and targets for 2022/23.

NHS Health Education England: Diversity and Inclusion Annual Report 2021-2022. The Annual Report gives an overview of activities undertaken nationally to meet the Public Sector Equality Duty, HEE Vision for Diversity and Inclusion and demonstrates how we are addressing them along with improving the culture of the organisation and making it a diverse and welcoming organisation to work for.

NHS Confederation: Commit, understand, act: our anti-racism strategy on supporting healthcare organisations to eliminate racism and reduce health inequalities through commitment, understanding and action

Nursing & Midwifery Council: Ambitious for change - Phase 2 report - 2022 In this report, you’ll find the latest findings of our Ambitious for Change work which aims through qualitative research to find out why some professionals have different experiences of our processes based on who they are.

Learning and Training

Barts Healt NHS Trust five staff diversity networks organise regular events and courses that covers every aspect of Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion. For more details on how to join and attend future events and training, please click here.

The following online training programme is available on the e-Learning for Healthcare platform and are available at no cost to NHS staff, use your OpenAthens account to log in and enrol.
Equality and Diversity and Human Rights - Level 1: This session covers the statutory and mandatory training for Equality and Diversity and Human Rights (Level 1). It has been designed to meet the learning outcomes in the UK Core Skills Training Framework (UK CSTF) v1.6.

Useful Resources

6 key questions to help shape diversity and inclusion plans in 2023 - Dana James-Edwards (Blog)

Speaking up: challenging microaggressions in the workplace - Dana James-Edwards (Blog)

Inclusive Employers: ‘Talking inclusion with…’ are podcasts about inclusion and diversity in the workplace.

The Freedom to Speak Guardian

The Freedom to Speak Up Guardian is available to all Barts staff and is a confidential space to discuss anything that may be getting in the way of you being able to do your best work. Contact: mary.w@theguardianservice.co.uk - Phone: 0333 003 2241