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NHS WORKFORCE DISABILITY EQUALITY STANDARD (WDES)

The Workforce Disability Equality Standard (WDES) in the NHS aims to address disability equality issues across various staffing areas, promoting a culture of inclusivity and accountability. It requires NHS organizations to demonstrate progress in workforce equality indicators, ultimately enhancing performance for individuals protected under the Equality Act 2010 and the Equality and Diversity Systems. The standard uses data from systems like ESR and the NHS Staff Survey to monitor staff perceptions and experiences, facilitating the delivery of Public Sector Equality Duty.

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NHS WORKFORCE DISABILITY EQUALITY STANDARD (WDES)

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  1. NHS WORKFORCE DISABILITY EQUALITY STANDARD(WDES) 2019 WDES ANALYSIS September 2019 Authors: Sara Copestake, Workforce Lead Planned Care; Well-being, Engagement and Inclusion Ruth Knighton, Head of HR

  2. What is the Workforce Disability Equality Standard? (WDES) The WDES is a national system, part of the standard NHS contract, where all NHS organisations are required to demonstrate how they are addressing disability equality issues across a range of staffing areas. Intentions of the WDES • Enabling people to work comfortably with disability equality, changing cultures of disability inequality in the system. • Embedding continuous accountability to ensure key policies have disability equality built into their core, so that eventually it becomes everyday business. • Mandating NHS organisations to show progress against a number of indicators of workforce equality. • Improving performance for people with characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010alongside theEquality and Diversity Systems (EDS2) • Helping NHS organisations to deliver on the Public Sector Equality Duty

  3. WDES 2019 Data for the above indicators is taken from workforce information systems such as ESR, NHS Jobs and the Employee Relations casework database.

  4. WDES 2019 (cont..) This data is taken from ESR and shows the percentage of staff in AfC pay bands; Medical and Dental and VSM

  5. WDES 2019 (cont.) The following indicators are taken directly from the national NHS Staff Survey and therefore represents the perception / experience of staff.

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