Name: West Suffolk Hospital NHS Trust

Industry: Healthcare

Project Summary: Research and development of a Single Equality Scheme

Business Issue: Public sector equality duties are central to new and existing legislation around race, disability and gender. With the move to a single equality commission, organisations are increasingly required to demonstrate how outcomes will be measured and inequalities removed. In particular, they are scrutinised as to how they will assess the impact of policies, strategies and action plans on the local population or the workforce. As such, many organisations are opting to develop single equality schemes (SES), which bring together their responses to all three duties covering race, disability and gender, as well as including other areas such as religion, belief, age and sexual orientation.

PTI Action: PTI completed research and analysis of West Suffolk NHS Trust workforce and service user data, we collected the local/national demographic data needed to inform the scheme and we ran consultation workshops with key stakeholder groups. We then wrote and made ready for publication the SES.

Business Result: The Single Equality Scheme was duly subjected to successful final consultation and has subsequently been published.