Equality and Diversity

Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- unknown author

Birmingham Women’s NHS Foundation Trust is committed to valuing and appreciating diversity and recognises that we are all individuals and we appreciate the unique contribution that each individual can make in providing high quality health care services.

The Equality Delivery Scheme
The Equality Delivery Scheme supports the Trust’s annual business planning to ensure that equality, diversity and fairness are at the heart of the care and treatment that users of our service receive.  
Our aim through the development of our Equality Delivery Scheme is singularly to improve the quality of our services for you, whether you are a patient, a member of our staff or someone who lives in the communities we provide services to.

Please open the Trust's Equality Delivery Scheme here

The Trust's Annual Equality and Diversity Report is available at the link below
Annual Equality and Diveristy Report

Please open the Workforce Equality Report 2012 here

The Trust’s next Equality and Diversity Report will be taken to Board in early 2013 for consideration and will be published in April 2013.

The Trust has an Equality and Diversity Committee which meets on a bi-monthly basis to debate and progress equality matters. If you are interested in this please contact Anne.Sayani@bwhct.nhs.uk for more information.

Additional Equality and Diversity material:

To find our more about Equality and Diversity in the NHS please follow this link:
Link to NHS Employers Equality and Diveristy Pages

To find out more about the Equality Act (2010) please follow this link : http://www.nhsemployers.org/EmploymentPolicyAndPractice/EqualityAndDiversity/EqualityAct/Pages/Equality-Act.aspx “

Other links of interest:

Stonewall – working for lesbian, gay and bi-sexual people
http://www.stonewall.org.uk/

Age Concern representing elderly people
www.ageuk.org.uk/

The UK Equality and Human Rights Commission
http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/

Black Britain Online
This is part of a network of Internet sites which are targeted at the UK black African Caribbean community. It is a useful resource site covering topics such as recruitment, news, sport, money matters and events.
www.blackbritain.co.uk

Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations
This site provides information about the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations based at the University of Warwick. It contains some useful information relating its work, the materials the Centre holds and publication listings.
www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/CRER_RC/

European Commission against Racism and Intolerance
This site provides information about the history of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance. It contains examples of good practise, educational resources, details about the organisation's conferences, campaign guides, recent publications and a discussion forum.
www.coe.int/ecri

Institute of Race Relations
This is the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) web site, which conducts research and produces educational resources. It covers in depth race relations issues and provides access to topical discussion forums.
www.irr.org.uk

Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
The site provides information about the organisation, its publications and training courses and links to other useful sites.
www.jcwi.org.uk

This page was last modified on Thu Apr 26 2012