Equality and Diversity
South Staffordshire Primary Care Trust is committed to promoting and ensuring equality of opportunity in employment and in access to, and use of, all its services.
The PCT is committed to ensuring that all those who plan, develop and deliver its services are aware of, and are sensitive to all the diversities within the community which it services. In employment the PCT aims to seek to ensure that the make-up of the PCT’s workforce is broadly representatives of the community it serves.
The PCT is equally committed to ensuring that it both observes all the relevant legislation relating to equality of opportunity and discrimination, as well that it fulfils its obligations, as a public body, to promote equality within the wider community across South Staffordshire.
In line with the Equality Act 2010, there is a Duty for all public bodies to consider how their activities as employers affect people who share different ‘protected characteristics ‘and publish this data at least annually. The protected characteristics covered by the Equality Duty are:
- Age
- Disability
- Gender reassignment
- Marriage and civil partnership
- Pregnancy and maternity
- Race, including ethnic or national origins, colour or nationality
- Religion or belief
- Sex
- Sexual orientation
There is also a responsibility for public bodies to consider how the decisions they make affects people who share different protected characteristics.
The Staffordshire Cluster of PCTs’ response to the Equality Impact Assessment is our response to the legal requirement to publish this data by 31st January 2012.
The NHS also has 4 clear Equality Delivery System goals with clear outcomes.
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