Introduction

Welcome to our annual equality report 2022 - 2023.

This report shows what we have achieved and where we need to continue working towards  equality in our mission of excellent care at the heart of the community.

The first five sections report on equality of opportunity within employment, broken down by the following:

  1. race
  2. religion and belief
  3. gender
  4. sexual orientation
  5. disability 
  6. age 

The last section focuses on equality of opportunity within services (patient care equity).

Each section includes key findings against a number of measures of equality, and ends with key next steps to address the findings over the coming year.

This report meets our duty under the Equality Act, our duty to publish gender pay gap information, and our publication obligations relating to the Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) and the Workforce Disability Equality Standard (WDES). 

Information:

A note about the data: The report does not include information  about fewer than 20 people to preserve privacy, except where  specified.

Workforce information is based on data from electronic staff records, staff surveys, human resources information systems, and the Trust’s recruitment management system. Care equity data is from patient administration systems and incident management systems.