Race Equality webinar, held on Friday 21 July 2023.

This webinar covered:

• Learnings from the Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) team on how to develop effective equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) action plans supported by an implementation framework.
• A trust case study from North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT), where NHS leaders share how they taken action to improve race equality through effective governance and accountability.

Find the slides here.

Hear Olivia King share the purpose of EDI plans, discuss the high impact actions set out in NHS England's EDI improvement plan, and how trust leaders can effectively navigate and create action plans that are improvement led and address racial inequality. Read Olivia's blog on the 10 steps to crafting an effective action plan.

Hear Harjit Bansal discuss NELFT's strategy for their ethnic minority networks and how these strategies have helped to address racial inequality, improve organisation culture and meet the needs of EDI action plans.

Hear Stephen Singh-Khakhian share race equality data at NELFT and how staff networks can improve patient safety and meet WRES indicators when done strategically and effectively.

Listen to the individual Q&As for each speaker and the panel Q&A where delegates ask questions on:

• How to approach action planning with multiple EDI reporting requirements.
• The role of NEDs in progressing EDI following the publication of the NHS England EDI Improvement Plan.
• How NELFT's staff networks approach budget setting and spend.
• What trusts can do to ensure any progress made is sustainable.
  
  

Resources:

• NHS Provider's next day briefing on NHSE's EDI improvement plan. On Thursday 8 June 2023, NHSE published its first EDI improvement plan. Developed in consultation with diverse staff, staff networks and stakeholders, NHS Providers are pleased to have contributed to this process as part of the working group. Read our briefing which outlines the context of the plan and summarises the high impact actions and accountability framework.

Chair: Nadine Pemberton Jn Baptiste – Non-executive director, University Hospitals Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust, and lay council member and trustee, The Nursing and Midwifery Council

Panellists:

Olivia King – Deputy director, Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES), NHS England

Harjit Bansal – Head of EDI, NELFT

Stephen Singh-Khakhian – Senior nurse and staff network vice chair, NELFT.