Developing your EDI action plan for race

Chair:

• Nadine Pemberton Jn Baptiste – non-executive director, University Hospitals Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust, and lay council member and trustee, The Nursing and Midwifery Council

Panellists:

• Olivia King – deputy director, Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES), NHS England
• Harjit Bansal – head of equality, diversity and inclusion (ED), North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT)
• Stephen Singh-Khakhian – Senior nurse and staff network vice chair, NELFT.

This webinar covered:

• Learnings from the WRES team on how to develop effective EDI action plans supported by an implementation framework.
• A trust case study from NELFT, where NHS leaders share how they taken action to improve race equality through effective governance and accountability.

Hear Olivia King share the purpose of EDI plans, discuss the high impact actions set out in NHS England's EDI improvement plan, and how trust leaders can effectively navigate and create action plans that are improvement led and address racial inequality.

Hear Harjit Bansal discuss NELFT's strategy for their ethnic minority networks and how these strategies have helped to address racial inequality, improve organisation culture and meet the needs of EDI action plans.

Hear Stephen Singh-Khakhian share race equality data at NELFT and how staff networks can improve patient safety and meet WRES indicators when done strategically and effectively.

Listen to the individual Q&As for each speaker and the panel Q&A where delegates ask questions on:

• How to approach action planning with multiple EDI reporting requirements.
• The role of NEDs in progressing EDI following the publication of the NHS England EDI Improvement Plan.
• How NELFT's staff networks approach budget setting and spend.
• What trusts can do to ensure any progress made is sustainable.