Bradford District Care Trust is working in partnership with Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust and NHS Bradford, Airedale and Leeds.
The BDCT Trust Board signed up to the Equality Delivery System in June 2011. The Trust Boards Service Governance Committee has six monthly updates on progress made in implementing the EDS across the organisation. In addition regular updates and decisions are taken and discussed at the Trusts Executive Management Team Chaired by the Chief Executive.
The Bradford and Airedale NHS Equality Group
This group includes representatives from:
- Age Concern Bradford and Airedale
- Black Health Forum
- Bradford Action for Refugees
- Bradford and Airedale Mental Health Advocacy Project
- Bradford District Women’s Forum
- Bradford District Care Trust Black and Minority Ethnic Staff Network
- Bradford District Care Trust Disabled Staff Network
- Bradford District Care Trust Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Staff Network
- Bradford Metropolitan District Council
- Bradford Muslim Women’s Council
- Bradford LINk
- Bradford Older People’s Alliance
- Bradford Teaching Hospitals Black and Minority Ethnic Staff Network
- Bradford Teaching Hospitals Disabled Staff Network
- Bradford Teaching Hospitals Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Staff Network
- Bradnet
- Carers’ Resource
- Council for Mosques
- Equity Partnership
- Health Partnership Project
- Healthier Lives
- Just West Yorkshire
- Mind in Bradford
- NHS Bradford and Airedale Black and Minority Ethnic Staff Network
- NHS Bradford and Airedale Staff Disability Network
- NHS Bradford and Airedale Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Staff Network
- Sharing Voices
- Strategic Disability Partnership
- Thornbury Centre
- University of Bradford’s Centre for Diversity & Inclusion
- VCS Assembly Equalities Forum
- VCS Assembly Health & Wellbeing Forum
The group is:
- agreeing priority equality objectives and then monitoring progress in meeting them
- using the new Equality Delivery System (EDS) to measure the local NHS against four key goals:
- Better health outcomes for all,
- Improved patient access and experience,
- Empowered, engaged and well supported staff
- Inclusive leadership at all levels
Terms of reference
Ways of working
How Well Are We Doing with Equality & Diversity?
Members of the Bradford and Airedale NHS Equality Group have formed Equality Delivery System assessment panels to consider and moderate the equality and diversity performance of each NHS trust using the Equality Delivery System framework.
The evidence for each trust provides detailed information about how well each NHS trust is doing in:
- Better health outcomes for all,
- Improved patient access and experience,
- Empowered, engaged and well supported staff
- Inclusive leadership at all levels
The summary sheets below show grading by the members of our Equality Group:
Health Inequalities
The group has discussed and added to summaries of health inequalities as they affect Equality Act protected groups. These bring together research evidence, statistical data and the experience of local people and are helping us to prioritise equality objectives.
These health inequality summaries are available here:
- Age
- Carers
- Disability
- Gender Reassignment
- Marriage Civil Partnership
- Pregnancy and Maternity
- Race
- Religion
- Sex
- Sexual Orientation
Equality Objectives
In February 2012 the Bradford and Airedale NHS Equality Group will meet to agree equality objectives using the information about health inequalities and the results of our Equality Delivery System assessment panels.
Click here to read our Equality Objectives
Public Sector Equality Duty
The details of our work to meet our equality objectives and improve our performance using the EDS assessment framework will all be published here and shows how we are eliminating unlawful discrimination and advancing equality of opportunity.
The Bradford and Airedale NHS Equality Group’s work of reaching consensus on these priorities will contribute towards our legal duty to foster good relations between those people from a protected group and those who are not and between different protected groups.
Further information
Please contact lisa.wright@bdct.nhs.uk Acting Head of Involvement and Equality Bradford District Care Trust.
Statement of Community Involvement
This information has been discussed and approved by the Bradford and Airedale NHS Equality Group on 19th December 2011.
Additional information will be approved at subsequent meetings of the same group.
This page was last updated on 14 May 2012.
