Equality, Diversity and Human Rights Week 2023

Inclusive recruitment

• Read our report featuring case studies from a range of organisations that share good practice around embedding inclusive recruitment. 
• Find out how to support people with learning disabilities in the workplace through supported internships such as Project Search and Project Choice.
• In this blog about the Devon Alliance, Tracey Collins shares her thoughts about expanding collaborative international recruitment model to wider health and social care roles across the integrated care system (ICS).
• Watch this video of Helen Grote, neurologist consultant and chair of the disabled staff network at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, sharing her story and discussing reasonable adjustments in the workplace. 

Psychological and physical safety of staff

• On day two of #EQW2023 we delivered a webinar on how to create an inclusive workplace, build trust, and promote the psychological safety of staff in the workplace. Find out more.
• Access our top tips for supporting the psychological safety of staff and how to create a safe workplace that improves staff experience and wellbeing.
• Read about the NHS Confederation's LGBTQ+ Inclusion Framework, including the six pillars that organisations should aim to build to create and maintain inclusive cultures.
• Take a look at the guidance and resources we have available to support NHS managers in responding positively to concerns raised in the workplace. 
• In this infographic developed by the NHS Staff Council's Health, Safety and Wellbeing Partnership Group, view key statistics and learn about the impact of bullying on workforce wellbeing. 
• Sign-up to the NHS Confederation’s inclusive leadership pledge to help create a psychologically safe working environment for all staff.
• Surviving in Scrubs have shared colleague stories on surviving sexism, harassment and sexual assault. Read more. 
• Watch this video on psychological safety, featuring leadership expert, Amy Edmondson, discussing how humility, transparency and urgency are the keys to successfully steering an organisation.
• Support Project S, a campaign that aims to improve the working conditions in the NHS, with a focus on discrimination and workplace safety, particularly for women who work in healthcare.
• In this resource from Compassion Practices, learn about various approaches your organisation can adopt to promote compassion and humanity among your workforce.
• Read about our NHS health and wellbeing framework which aims to support staff with feeling well, healthy and happy at work.

Pay gaps

• Learn more about the different types of pay gaps and the significance of pay gap data.
• Tweet chat: we held a discussion on reducing disability, ethnicity and gender pay gaps across the NHS on day three of #EQW2023. Find out more.
• Find out more about mandatory gender pay gap reporting and the significance of this data.
• Access this gender pay gap infographic to learn more about the successes of the gender pay gap implementation panel since it was launched.
• In this report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission, read about the ethnicity pay gap and some of its key causes.
• The Office for National Statistics has published a report that examines the difference in earnings between disabled and non-disabled workers in the UK. Find out more.
• Read NHS England’s Workforce Disability Equality Standard 2021 report, which provides more information on the gap between disabled colleagues and those who haven’t reported a disability.
• Hear from Miriam González Durántez, esteemed international lawyer and passionate advocate of women's rights about the difference between equity and equality.
• Read Government guidance on ethnicity pay gap reporting.

Health inequalities

• Read the NHS Confederation's anti-racism strategy which supports healthcare organisations to eliminate racism and reduce health inequalities through commitment, understanding and action 
• In this NHS Employers' and agiLab report learn how to support the agile working needs of those in low-income households   
• Visit the NHS Confederation’s health inequalities pages for guidance and tools on tackling health inequalities  
• Read the NHS Confederation’s letter to the Chancellor raising concerns that the cost of living crisis will exacerbate health inequalities. 
• Learn about mitigating the worst effects of rising costs, good employment practices to support staff, and our calls on government for action in the NHS Confederation’s cost-of-living hub.
• Listen to this NHS Confederation podcast featuring Joan Saddler OBE and Lena Samuels on tackling racism and the role of healthcare organisations
• Find out more about LGBTQ+ health inequalities in this resource from NHS England.