Health Management and Policy Alert

Gender pay gap

NHS England - 
This report provides details of NHS England’s gender pay under the requirements of the Equality Act 2010 Act (Gender Pay Gap Regulations) 2017 and details the six specific measures and the work that is being undertaken to address the gap.

• Report

NHS workforce race equality: a case for diverse boards

NHS England - 
This report highlights the importance of a diversity in NHS board membership and provides guidance on working towards creating inclusive cultures. 

• Report

Equality in Public Health England: how we met the public sector equality duty in 2017

Public Health England (PHE) - 
This report sets out how Public Health England has responded to its equality duties in 2017. The equality duty is supported by two specific duties which require public bodies to publish information to show their compliance with the equality duty and set and publish equality objectives at least every four years.

• Report
• More information

Enabling BME nurse and midwife progression into senior leadership positions

NHS England - 
This report summarises the learning from engagement work, which identifed what the best performing trusts in the workforce race equality standard area were doing, and includes examples that outline best practice approaches and a number of suggested actions to support improvement.

• Report
• NHS England publications

NHS workforce race equality standard: 2017 data analysis report for NHS trusts

NHS England - 
This report analyses the data on race equality in the NHS workforce and finds steady improvements in some areas. The number of BMA senior managers has increased by 18% and there has been an increase in the number of NHS trusts with more than one BME board member. However, the analysis finds that BME members of staff are more likely to experience discrimination at work and within the recruitment process.

• Report
• NHS England publications

Measuring up: your community and your workforce

NHS Employers - 
This online tool aims to help employers in the NHS to compare their current workforce data with data from their local communities. The aim of the tool is the highlight groups in the local community that may be missing from the workforce, and signposts to advice on how to better attract, recruit and retain from these groups in order to strengthen the workforce supply. 

• Tool
• Further information

LGBTQI+* disabled people and self-directed social care support

National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) - 
This study finds that LGBTQI+ disabled people routinely feel they need to hide their identities from social care staff who support them. It also highlights the need for LGBTQI+ needs to be proactively considered as part of care planning in the same way as age, culture or ethnicity is. 

• Report
• Press release

Implementation guidance: fundamental standard for sexual orientation monitoring

NHS England - 
This guidance supports the implementation of an information standard which will record the sexual orientation of all adult patients or service users across all health services and local authorities, where it may be relevant to record this information.

• Guidance
• NHS England publications

Equally outstanding: equality and human rights – good practice resource

Care Quality Commission -
This guidance aims to help providers put equality and human rights at the heart of their improvement work so that the quality of care gets better for everyone. It contains case studies and identifies nine common success factors.

• Guidance
• Care Quality Commission - publications

Improving access for all: reducing inequalities in access to general practice services

NHS England - 
This guide aimed at GP commissioners and providers aims to promote understanding of groups in the community who are experiencing barriers in accessing services and help to address those barriers as improvements in access to GP services are implemented.

• Guide
• NHS England news