Equality, diversity and inclusion is about promoting and delivering EDI in the workplace as an essential aspect of good people management. It's about creating working environments and cultures where every individual can feel safe, experience a sense of belonging, and is empowered to achieve their full potential.

We're fully committed to improving Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) for patients, communities and staff across the South Yorkshire (SY) health and care system.

Below you can find lots of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion resources to support the South Yorkshire Integrated Care System.

To view the Workforce wellbeing website visit here

Upcoming Health & Wellbeing and EDI

Webinars and Courses

Click the box below to see the full list of all upcoming webinars and courses. These sessions are all open to all health and Care workforce within South Yorkshire. If you have any enquiries or feedback about anything that is posted please email syicb-sheffield.hwb@nhs.net

Equality and Diversity Calendar 

Click the box below to view the calendar of EDI events for 2025 which includes details about the awareness campaigns we will be celebrating and webinar topics for each month.

Key Areas of Work:

More in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:

Maria Lewin facilitated a British Sign Language and Deaf Awareness taster session, to include finger spelling, greetings, medical terminology and emotions

British Sign Language and Deaf Awareness Taster Session

 

Greetings Signs - British Sign Language

BSL-Fingerspelling-Right-Handed_1.pdf

BSL-Fingerspelling-Left-Handed.pdf

See below more information on BSL Sign language week 17th- 21st March:

SLW Facts

Basic Sign Language

BSL Alphabet

BSL Useful Resources

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EDI Co-Production Group worked with HR colleagues at the ICB to develop the recruitment process for ICB Board positions to increase diversity of representation - as a result, a new ethnically diverse Independent Non-Executive Member (INEM) was recruited.

In addition, we introduced an Associate INEM Scheme to allow for two candidates per year to develop into these INEM positions to create a more diverse pipeline into Board positions across South Yorkshire. 

See our current Board

Did you know? 

The SY ICS has an EDI Steering Group of EDI leads across different NHS Trusts and organisations across South Yorkshire, working together to do coordinated work to reduce health inequalities and make South Yorkshire health and care anti-racist.  

And… 

Building on the excellent work of the EDI Steering Group, through 2023 we will establish an Equality Diversity and Inclusion Executive Board to be chaired by the Independent Chair of ICB, to ensure the EDI agenda attains a high profile and engages senior-level input. 

We are keen to address racism at a system level, linking with a clear ‘Joint Commitment’ in the Integrated Care Partnership Strategy to ‘Identify, recognise and tackle systemic discrimination including a focus on anti-racism’. 

We have continued to improve on system wide data collation building on existing reporting i.e. WRES, WDES, EDS2 etc. and have used this data to develop improvement plans. 

 

Click here to see more about Health Inequalities: Health Inequalities

Contact us

Email: syicb-sheffield.hwb@nhs.net

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