Healthcare Equality Partners is an organisation that specialises in providing Equality, Diversity and Human Rights support to the NHS.  We have a proven track record in the field and can help ensure that your organisation meets its Equality and Human Rights requirements.

Did you know...?

• 24% of deaf or hearing impaired people have missed at least one appointment in a primary care setting because of poor communication, such as not being able to hear staff calling out their name (RNIB, 2006);
• Infant mortality in England and Wales for children born to mothers from Pakistan is almost double the average (Office for National Statistics, 2008);
• Only 7% of NHS staff, who have experienced bullying, harassment or abuse from colleagues, feel that their trust takes effective action in such cases (NHS Employers, 2007).

Equality and Human Rights are an integral part of the core business of the NHS.

The NHS is currently undergoing a period of fundamental cultural reform.  The founding and enduring values of universality and fairness remain, but the systemic bias that can be caused by unthinking or dated processes is being replaced by a patient centred approach, which recognises that in order to treat people fairly, we often need to treat them differently.

The new Equality Duties are based on a proactive, systematic and thorough process that may present challenges to NHS organisations.  At Healthcare Equality Partners, we understand the environment, competing pressures and constraints within which you work and we can help you to achieve your equality and diversity goals more effectively and efficiently.  Our mission is to stay at the forefront of the emerging equalities agenda and provide you with the support and expertise that you need to do the same.  Please contact us to discuss your requirements.

"There can be nothing more critical to good governance in the NHS than to ensure that your organisation offers a service 'open to all at the point of access'."

Anne Watts CBE Chair, Appointments Commission

Healthcare Equality Partners is a trading name of Vincent Hodges and Associates.

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