The NHS Workforce Race Equality Standard is a requirement for NHS healthcare providers. Its purpose is to ensure employees from black and minority ethnic backgrounds are treated fairly and have equal opportunities.

Our Workforce Race Equality Standard includes an action plan to ensure changes are made where data highlights inequalities.

Read our Workforce Race Equality Standard. 

The Workforce Disability Equality Standard is a set of specific measures which help NHS providers to compare the workplace and career experiences of disabled and non-disabled staff.

Our Workforce Disability Equality Standard Report includes an action plan to help address inequalities seen within the report’s data, as well as during our other work looking at Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.

Read our Workforce Disability Equality Standard Report. 

The Equality Delivery System is an improvement tool for patients, staff and leaders of the NHS.

Read our EDS22 report which is designed to give an overview of our organisation’s most recent EDS implementation and grade.

Please see the NHS England website for more information about the Equality Delivery System.