Emergency care: If you are experiencing a life-threatening emergency, please continue to call 999 as normal.
Hospital appointments: Patients should continue to attend planned appointments unless contacted directly by their care team.
Non-emergency care: If you need urgent medical advice but it is not a life-threatening emergency, please continue to use NHS 111.
Contacting our services: Some email communications and online services may be affected. If your enquiry is urgent, please contact the relevant service by telephone rather than email where possible.
Equality, Diversity, and Human Rights are enshrined in the NHS Constitution and are central to everything we do at our trust.
The trust embraces the NHS Constitution's commitment to treating our staff - our people - with dignity, fairness, and respect, to create a working environment that is supportive, inclusive, and offers personal, and professional growth.
The need to support and develop compassionate and inclusive leadership, to engage and inspire our workforce, to proactively support wellbeing, to adopt innovative approaches to recruitment and retention, and to maintain a focus on our culture, remain critical to our success. We embrace the NHS People Plan and it is embedded in our People & Organisational Development Strategy.
The NHS Constitution is very clear: 'Everyone Counts' be they patients or staff. This means the NHS needs to consider the outcomes that different people experience; taking different or extra steps to improve access and design services so that their health outcomes and experiences are equitable. We will carry the values of integrating equality, diversity and inclusion in everything we do to enable positive outcomes for everyone who comes in to contact with us. More specifically, we will work in partnership so that people at all levels of our organisation conduct and plan their business to demonstrate due regard to eliminate unlawful discrimination; promote equal opportunity; and foster good relations within their organisation and beyond.
Our trust has 4 staff equality networks that meet bi-monthly:
- Race Equality
- LGBT+ Equality
- Disability & Long Term Conditions Equality
- Neurodiversity Equality
Our People and Organisational Development Strategy complements our wider workforce and clinical strategy, and our inclusive culture is defined by our organisational vision and values.
