Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust aims to design and implement policy and services that meet the diverse needs of the population and workforce ensuring that none are placed at a disadvantage.
Like all public bodies the Trust has a statutory duty under the Public Sector Equality Duty to analyse the effect its policies, services, functions and strategy has on the workforce and service users and to publish the results of the analysis and evidence information used.
EIA is a process by which we can determine how far a decision will affect a user of our services and / or the workforce in terms of the relevant protected characteristics within the Equality Duty.
An EIA must be undertaken, by the dedicated lead, at the start of the decision making process and prior to final ratification for all existing, new policies, services or proposals as well as when policies, services, strategies or proposals are changed. There will be times when it is not practical to delay making a decision or adopting a piece of work. In such cases an action plan should be completed and the initiative must be monitored and reviewed.
EIA Training must be undertaken by the dedicated lead of the review/change process. EIA Training must be undertaken by an appropriate delegated lead prior to implementation, for further information please contact the Equality & Diversity Leads on 37610/37251
Training in completing an Equality Impact Assessment is given in the Valuing People Level 4 training sessions and can also be arranged on an ad hoc basis, e.g. on a one to one basis.
For further information on additional Equality & Diversity training please see the Workforce page
Completed Equality Impact Assessments are available on request
Equality Impact Assessment Resources