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Our Policy

Equality & Diversity

Our work on the multiple and complex strands of delivering equality in the patient experience of our services and in access to career opportunities of those who work with us, continues to grow. This means that information we want to share with partners, stakeholders and the wider public also continues to grow. 
 
We have reviewed how we can ensure that it is easy for you to find that information and decided to bring it all together in one place and make it available under the heading of ‘equality and diversity’.
 
It is here that you will find what we are doing to meet our legal duties on Race, Disability and Gender Equality, and meet our other legal obligations on equality of opportunity for in the contexts of religion/belief, sexual orientation and age. You will also find information on what progress we are making with equality and diversity impact assessment of our policies and functions. 
 
In many of these areas you will find there is an opportunity to comment on what we have done.  Where this is the case, we will provide guidance on how to provide us with your comments and thoughts.

Further information is available about:

Strategic Statement on Equality, Diversity & Human Rights
As a health board and as a body of NHSScotland staff, we are committed to playing our part in delivering a health service where equality, diversity and human rights is embraced by everyone and finds expression in the everyday work of our staff.  This statement explains just how we will do this as a service provider and as an employer.

Equality & Diversity Annual Report
This provides you with formal reports on what we have achieved against many of the legal and other obligations we have to remove discrimination and deliver measurable equality.  This remains a relatively new approach and you will find we have just published our third annual report covering the period 2008-09.

Sexual Orientation Equality Scheme
Although we are not required to draw up and publish a Scheme to meet our legal obligations, we believe that levelling up in this way helps ensure we avoid creating a hierarchy of inequality,

Gender Equality Scheme
This is a Scheme we are required to publish and on which we are also required to report progress.  For progress, read our Annual Report on Equality & Diversity.  For what we are doing on Equal Pay, this section of the web site will provide you with our first formal Equal Pay Review.

Race Equality Scheme
In this section of the web site you will find our original Scheme along with the recently published [November 2008] review of that Scheme.  We have completed this work in partnership with REACH, a BME community organisation and have agreed a new Action Plan to guide our future work on delivering race equality.

Disability Equality Scheme
In this part of our web site you will find our second Disability Equality Scheme, covering the period 2009-12.  It was developed in partnership with Glasgow Centre for Inclusive Living, a user-led organisation of and for disabled people.  If you have ideas on how the health service can deliver better equality outcomes for disabled people, do read our Scheme and let us have your ideas.

Equality and Diversity Impact Assessment
And here at this part of the web site is a growing list of impact assessments.  Some of these are for comment currently, others are available for you to examine and see how well we are reviewing all our policies, functions and services to identify any discrimination in what we do and, where we have found it, how we will go about removing it.

We also use the EDIA process for positive purposes, looking to introduce good practice on equality from elsewhere or to repeat good work we already do on equality in one part of our business in all the other parts of our work.

We will continue to keep this part of our web site under review to ensure it delivers what we must do, as well as what provides maximum accessibility and relevance to you, our web site visitors. 

If you have any suggestions for improving how we make information on equality and diversity available to you, please let us know by emailing the Equality & Diversity Unit.

Wlad.Mejka@nhs24.scot.nhs.uk or David.Morrison@nhs24.scot.nhs.uk
If you prefer to write or ‘phone, contact details are as follows:

Wladyslaw Mejka
Equality & Diversity Manager
NHS 24
Caledonia House
Cardonald Park
Glasgow G51 4EB

Tel - 0141 337 4545 
Mob – 0776 731 0927 

David Morrison
Equality & Diversity Co-ordinator
NHS 24
Caledonia House
Cardonald Park
Glasgow G51 4EB

Tel - 0141 337 4532
Mob - 0783 340 2604
 

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reviewed 15 February 2010

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