Equality and Diversity through service reconfiguration

Creating a patient-led NHS has clearly set the direction for Primary Care Trusts to develop a service where patients have a greater range of choices and where NHS organisations are better at understanding their needs. Commissioning a patient-led NHS calls for a reconfiguration of the service to support this change.

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Overview
Guidance published by NHS Employers on the human resources framework for strategic health authorities and primary care trusts has been produced in partnership with trade unions nationally.

The challenges
The main challenges faced by the group and lessons learned were tested at workshops, focus groups and seminars to ensure that they were robust and relevant to others in the forthcoming round of re-organisation.

Rising to the challenge
The working group of nine PCTs identified the following checklist of actions to address many of the equality and diversity challenges faced:

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Last reviewed 9 May 2006

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Equity in implementing organisational change This guidance provides an overview of the issues that organisations should be addressing to maintain and enhance their ability to deliver the equality and diversity agenda as the NHS moves into a period of significant organisational change. (29 kB PDF)|

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