Equality Data Level 2 consultation document
Protected characteristic: Age
Data
Report
Section
Area of equality
Action
Staff and
service users
Identify any actions we could take to make membership more attractive to younger people, based on the outcomes of our
focus group work.
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Mainly staff
Continue to increase and develop the Trust's offer of apprenticeships.
2
Mainly service
users
Review the Staff Survey conducted in 2011, to see if it shows the same pattern of discrimination reporting by staff aged 1630, as was the case in 2010.
14b(i)
Develop a Trust equality objective with a focus on ensuring a good experience of RD&E for patients aged 65+ as, across the
protected characteristics, they are our fastest-growing patient group.
15a
Consider how to raise awareness of the need for support in eating required by patients in the 40-59 year old age group.
17b
Continue to monitor the equality indicator for patient safety, with regard to those aged 65 and over, as an indicator of how
well we are improving patient safety for this age group, as this age group is overrepresented in "severity of harm" incidents.
20a
Pay particular attention to the needs of patients aged 65 and over in our review of discharge arrangements, as they are
overrepresented among emergency readmissions.
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Overall, do you think these actions are appropriate for the group in question?
Yes / no / don’t know
Is there anything else you would like to see us doing for this group?
Yes / no
If “yes”, please say what you would like to be done:
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Equality Data Level 2 consultation document
Protected characteristic: Disability
Data Report
Section
Area of equality
Action
Staff and service
users
Continue to develop work experience placements for people with disabilities, as a way of raising disability awareness.
14b
Continue to promote disability awareness training, both as a stand-alone and embedded within other training courses.
14b
Review the possibility of formal engagement activity with staff who have a disability, to understand possible reasons
behind low satisfaction in the staff survey, when the staff engagement strategy has been finalised.
14b
Mainly staff
Conduct case studies of staff with disabilities who are subject to employment cases.
Mainly service
users
8
Review the effectiveness of our disability webpages in supporting staff who have a disability.
14b
We will consult with service users to ensure that the questions we ask in monitoring reasonable adjustments for patients
remain appropriate.
18
Identify any good practice in support of people with hearing impairments we can adopt in provision of services through
Child and Women’s Health and any good practice in Child and Women’s Health which can be implemented more widely
in the Trust.
(Child and Women's Health is the area making most use of British Sign Language interpretation.)
19b
We are rarely asked for patient information in Braille, so consider whether the availability of information in Braille needs
better advertising.
19c
19c
Produce data which will enable us to track the usage of Easy Read literature.
Overall, do you think these actions are appropriate for the group in question?
Yes / no / don’t know
Is there anything else you would like to see us doing for this group?
Yes / no
If “yes”, please say what you would like to be done:
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Equality Data Level 2 consultation document
Protected characteristic: Gender
Data Report
Section
Area of equality
Action
Mainly staff
Review the Staff Survey conducted in 2011, to see if it shows a fall in female satisfaction, as was the case in 2010.
14b
Mainly service
users
Reconsider the national patient surveys next year to see if the anomalies are repeated, where females report lower
satisfaction, compared to males and are more likely to want to complain about our service.
17a
Overall, do you think these actions are appropriate for the group in question?
Yes / no / don’t know
Is there anything else you would like to see us doing for this group?
Yes / no
If “yes”, please say what you would like to be done:
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Equality Data Level 2 consultation document
Protected characteristic: Race
Data Report
Section
Area of equality
Action
Staff and
service users
Continue to promote race awareness training, as a response to the year by year increase in the proportion of staff who are
ethnic minority, the increase in discrimination reported by ethnic minority staff in the staff survey and the mismatch
between the proportion of staff who are ethnic minority (8%) and the proportion of patients who are ethnic minority (3%).
2
Mainly staff
Consult with relevant stakeholders to consider whether there is any need for a career development initiative to support
ethnic minority Band 5 nurses, as ethnic minority nurses are staying longer at this band than their non-ethnic minority
counterparts.
2d
Subject to ongoing recruitment patterns, investigate, by looking at individual cases, why ethnic minority applicants are not
progressing through our recruitment process as expected and this anomaly has become more noticeable since last year.
14b(iv)
Review impact of webpage for ethnic minority staff and mentoring.
Mainly service
users
4
Continue with engagement work, to understand the needs of ethnic minority patients and respond to those specific needs
already identified.
15
Monitor next year's patient survey data, to see if ethnic minority patients are still less likely to receive the offer of the
spiritual care leaflet.
17b
Review next year's complaints data, to check whether ethnic minority patients remain less likely than expected to use the
complaints process.
17d
Consider whether there are particular cultural needs among speakers of Polish, Arabic, Farsi and possibly Lithuanian
which would need supporting during healthcare, in particular the care delivered by Child and Women’s Health.
(The languages cited are those most in demand through our interpretation service and data suggests Child and Women's
Health is the Directorate making most use of interpretation.)
Overall, do you think these actions are appropriate for the group in question?
19a
Yes / no / don’t know
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Is there anything else you would like to see us doing for this group?
Yes / no
If “yes”, please say what you would like to be done:
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Protected characteristic: Religion
Data Report
Section
Area of equality
Action
Mainly service
users
Review next year's complaints data, to check whether religious minority patients remain more likely than expected to use
the complaints process.
Overall, do you think these actions are appropriate for the group in question?
Yes / no / don’t know
Is there anything else you would like to see us doing for this group?
Yes / no
17d
If “yes”, please say what you would like to be done:
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Protected characteristic: Sexual orientation
Data Report
Section
Area of equality
Action
Mainly staff
Undertake further analysis of the sick rates for this protected characteristic, to include causes of sickness and whether the
sick rates vary by staff group, to find out why staff in this protected characteristic have a higher than expected sickness
rate.
13
Publish a webpage for lesbian, gay or bisexual staff, to affirm their identity and offer support.
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As a matter of good practice, review the patient pathway through the Trust and consider where we need to check that our
service delivery is inclusive of patients who are lesbian, gay or bisexual. (This might include, for example, where we collect
information on marital status, or next of kin, or give advice relating to sexual activity.)
17e
Mainly service
users
Overall, do you think these actions are appropriate for the group in question?
Yes / no / don’t know
Is there anything else you would like to see us doing for this group?
Yes / no
If “yes”, please say what you would like to be done:
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Equality Data Level 2 consultation document
Protected characteristic: Transgender
Data Report
Section
Area of equality
Action
Mainly service
users
Ensure learning from our only complaint from a known transgender patient is identified and appropriate actions
implemented.
Overall, do you think these actions are appropriate for the group in question?
Yes / no / don’t know
Is there anything else you would like to see us doing for this group?
Yes / no
17c
If “yes”, please say what you would like to be done:
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Equality Data Level 2 consultation document
Protected characteristic: Marriage / civil partnership
Data Report
Section
Area of equality
Action
Mainly service
users
Amend the Clinical Integrated Document (CID), which controls the gathering of information on admission of inpatients, to
reflect civil partnership.
Overall, do you think these actions are appropriate for the group in question?
Yes / no / don’t know
Is there anything else you would like to see us doing for this group?
Yes / no
17e
If “yes”, please say what you would like to be done:
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Equality Data Level 2 consultation document
Protected characteristic: Pregnancy / maternity
Area of equality
Action
Mainly service
users
Implement action plan in response to Maternity Services Survey (2010).
Data Report
Section
N/a1
Overall, do you think these actions are appropriate for the group in question?
Yes / no / don’t know
Is there anything else you would like to see us doing for this group?
Yes / no
If “yes”, please say what you would like to be done:
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Whilst relevant to this table, this particular action does not arise from the Data Report. It is cited as demonstrating that we are active in this area.
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Equality Data Level 2 consultation document
Other deprived groups
Data Report
Section
Area of equality
Action
Mainly staff
Investigate the extent to which applicants are rejected due to issues arising during the CRB process and whether this
could account for the low proportion of people with court convictions who are appointed.
Overall, do you think these actions are appropriate for the group in question?
Yes / no / don’t know
Is there anything else you would like to see us doing for this group?
Yes / no
4a
If “yes”, please say what you would like to be done:
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Equality Data Level 2 consultation document
Protected characteristic: All
Data Report
Section
Area of equality
Action
Mainly staff
Subject to ongoing recruitment activity, continue to implement our action plan, in response to the in-depth equality
monitoring of recruitment and selection activity undertaken during 2010-11;
Key points are:
- Produce “top tips for keeping it fair” document for selecting managers.
- Review generic interview questions, to ensure they are equally comprehensible to all.
- Devise and implement "equality proofing" process for job descriptions, person specifications and interview
tests.
- Identify and support any serial applicants.
- Provide race awareness and human rights training for the Recruitment Team.
Consider whether these actions can support our redeployment work.
Overall, do you think these actions are appropriate for the group in question?
Yes / no / don’t know
Is there anything else you would like to see us doing for this group?
Yes / no
4
If “yes”, please say what you would like to be done:
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