4.1 Provide strategic oversight of organisational health inequalities work and encourage other executive board members to embed an equity lens to their work programmes.
4.2 Ensure integrated working with HR and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) executive leads to achieve strategic alignment for workforce EDI and tackling inequality.
4.3 Publish an annual health inequalities report and/or update for the board.
4.4 Lead development of a trust level strategy or delivery plan for health inequalities, working with the strategy director, which sets out a workplan and measures of success.
4.5 Establish a working group(s), steering group(s) or committee(s) to coordinate the organisation’s work on health inequalities.
4.6 Provide executive oversight of external reporting on the trust’s health inequalities work.
4.7 Develop in-house public health capacity and capability to support the delivery health inequalities work.
4.8 Work collaboratively with senior leaders and health inequality leads in the ICS, other provider organisations/provider collaboratives and primary care networks (PCNs) to share learning and ensure scalability of health inequalities strategic work across systems.
4.9 Embed the use of tools such as the health equity assessment tool across your organisation when making decisions about service delivery.
4.10 Ensure there are systems in place to support frontline work on health inequalities, such as consolidating learning and sharing of best practice across the organisation and establishing learning networks or communities of interest for health inequalities.
4.11 Work collaboratively with executive board members leading on the organisation’s anchor institutions work, to ensure alignment with the health inequalities agenda.
4.12 Work with system partners to ensure the trust has pathways to engage with communities and local voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector organisations.
4.13 Ensure the equality impact assessment process takes into account existing health inequalities in the population and provides assurance that service developments will not exacerbate these, and where possible they will aim to reduce them. There should be specific consideration to those from deprived areas, underrepresented ethnic minority groups, those with protected characteristics and/or inclusion health groups.