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Promoting Equality – An Update

Kate Milton & Habib Naqvi,

NHS England

16 September 2015

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• NHS England: established as a special health authority on 31 October 2011

and as an executive non-departmental public body on 1 October 2012 under the name of the NHS Commissioning Board (NHS CB);

plays a key role in the Government’s vision to modernise the NHS and secure the best possible outcomes for patients.

About us

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Patient-focused, clinically-led organisation that has the culture, style and leadership to truly improve outcomes for all patients.

Roles:• To allocate resources to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs)• To support CCGs to commission services on behalf of their

patients and seek assurance that they are doing so• To have direct responsibility for commissioning services:

primary care; military and prison health services; high secure psychiatric services; and specialised services.

The role of NHS England

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• To uphold the principles and values of the NHS Constitution

 “The NHS belongs to the people. It is there to improve our health and wellbeing, supporting us to keep mentally and physically well, to get better when we are ill and, when we cannot fully recover, to stay as well as we can to the end of our lives. It works at the limits of science – bringing the highest levels of human knowledge and skill to save lives and improve health. It touches our lives at times of basic human need, when care and compassion are what matter most.”

The role of NHS England

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• High quality health and care, now and for future generations

• Improve health• Redesign care• Whole system change for future clinical and financial

sustainability• Foundations for improvement• NHS England’s Business Plan 2015-16• Continuous leadership on improving equality and tackling

health inequalities, including through the work of the EDC

Vision and aims of NHS England

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• Both made mandatory from April 2015• Included in the CCG Assurance Framework• Included in CQC inspection regime • Two separate teams, working closely together• Tools available to support implementation and use of both

– report templates, leaflets and the EDS2

animation video• WRES regional workshops during autumn • EDS2 Train the Trainer package being

developed

EDS2 and WRES

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• Supporting consistency of EDS2 use and the sharing of good practice across the NHS

• EDS2 Reporting Template now available to help you meet your contractual obligations

• Proposed EDS2 Dashboard…What should be the role and purpose?What should it look like (functionality)?What would be useful to you?Your support on this…

EDS2 reporting template and dashboard

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• Equality data monitoring Information Standard• Equality monitoring position paper• Sexual orientation data Standard• Unified equality Standard

• Accessible Information Standard• Gender Identity Services Review• NHS England’s internal capability building programme

including EIA skills development

Other equality work…

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• Research into the experiences of disabled people in the NHS workforce

• Options appraisal for the EDC on how to improve this experience? • Stand alone WDES (may be amalgamated with WRES in

the future)?• Incorporating into EDS2• Voluntary WDES• Any other options?• Disability Confident

• Research into differential experience by sex

What next