Equality, diversity and inclusion

• About equality, diversity and inclusion

  United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust recognises that everyone is different, and values the unique contribution that individual experiences, knowledge and skills make in delivering quality healthcare and becoming a model employer.

• Accessible information standard – meeting your communication needs

  United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has welcomed the launch of the Accessible Information Standard, which will enable us to ensure we meet the communication needs of all of our patients.

• Our equality objectives

  At United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, our vision is to provide consistently excellent and safe patient-centred care for the people of Lincolnshire, through highly skilled, committed and compassionate staff working together.

• Gender pay gap reporting

  Information about gender pay gap reporting at United Lincolnshire NHS Hospitals Trust.

• NHS Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES)

  The NHS Workforce Race Equality Standard was devised to ensure employees from black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds have equal access to career opportunities and receive fair treatment in the workplace.

• NHS Workforce Disability Equality Standard (WDES)

  The Workforce Disability Equality Standard (WDES) is a set of ten specific measures (metrics) that will enable NHS organisations to compare the experiences of disabled and non-disabled staff.

• Our workforce equality profile and annual EDI reports

  Our equality, diversity and inclusion annual report provides an update on the progress we have made in relation to equality, diversity and inclusion for patients and service users and also for our staff.

• NHS Equality Delivery System (EDS)

  EDS is a system that helps NHS organisations improve the services they provide for their local communities and provide better working environments, free of discrimination, for those who work in the NHS, while meeting the requirements of the Equality Act 2010.

• Hearing Lincolnshire’s ‘hidden voices’ – equality engagement

  In May 2018 United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust and NHS Lincolnshire East Clinical Commissioning Group innovated the Hearing Lincolnshire’s 'hidden voices' engagement events, as a way to provide people from smaller and often lesser heard community groups a meaningful way of sharing their experience of the local NHS.