The NHS Equality and Diversity Council announced on July 31 2014 that it had agreed action to ensure employees from black and ethnic minority (BME) backgrounds have equal access to career opportunities and receive fair treatment in the workplace.

The move follows recent reports which have highlighted disparities in the number of BME people in senior leadership positions across the NHS, as well as lower levels of wellbeing amongst the BME population.

The Council pledged its commitment, subject to consultation with the NHS, to implement two measures to improve equality across the NHS, which would start in April 2015.

The first is a Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) that would, for the first time, require organisations employing almost all of the 1.4 million NHS workforce to demonstrate progress against a number of indicators of workforce equality, including a specific indicator to address the low levels of BME Board representation.

WRES

NHS Rotherham CCG Workforce Race Equality Report 2021

NHS Rotherham CCG Workforce Race Equality Report 2019

NHS Rotherham CCG Workforce Race Equality Report 2018

NHS Rotherham CCG Workforce Race Equality Report 2017 

NHS Rotherham CCG Workforce Race Equality Standard 2016

Guidance

Technical Guidance for the NHS Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) May 2019

Clinical Commissioning Groups and the Workforce Race Equality Standard Guidance

Frequently Asked Questions on the Workforce Race Equality Standard 

Workforce Race Equality Standard Update

For more details please follow the link below:

http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/gov/equality-hub/equality-standard/