Transition to NHS Equality Delivery System 2022 (EDS 2022)

As a newly formed NHS organisation South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board is committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion.

The Equality Delivery System (EDS) is an improvement toolkit designed by the Department of Health to help NHS organisations to improve the services they provide for their local communities, consider health inequalities in their local area, and provide better working environments that are free of discrimination, as set out in the Equality Act 2010. This improvement work must include involvement and partnership working with local partners and local communities. The EDS helps NHS organisations meet their Public Sector Equality Duty.

Since its launch in 2011 the NHS Equality Delivery System 2 has been used across the predecessor Clinical Commissioning Groups in South Yorkshire to:

  • Assess our performance in addressing our Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) priorities.
  • Provide opportunities for stakeholders to analyse our performance data and input into that assessment.
  • Assist with identifying our EDI priorities for the future.
  • Provide opportunities to work in partnership to deliver and assess those priorities consistently.

South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board published the EDS2 in March 2023 and this is a combination of the former CCG's work and the work that the has been carried out by the new organisation in its first months of existence.  Scoring of this year's submission indicates that much of what we are doing across the three domains is developing.

In 2022 NHS England launched a new Equality Delivery System 22 framework following a review of the EDS2. The new EDS 2022 is an improvement tool designed for use across a system with bringing together Integrated Care Boards and NHS trusts.

South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board welcomes this approach as it supports our aims for greater collaboration and integration, it also recognises that our patients are all our population, and this provides opportunities to review services across a service user or patient pathway.

We remain committed to using the EDS improvement tool to support consistent assessment and involvement of all our communities in our EDI work.

Within the South Yorkshire Integrated Care System, we are transitioning from the EDS2 to the EDS 2022.  All organisations are using EDS whether EDS2 or testing out EDS 2022.  Some of our NHS trusts have come together as peers to develop their scoring in the domains and this has been a very valuable exercise. All will used EDS 2022 from 2023 onwards.

We agreed that for EDS22 partners will work together to:

  • Share and compare data and information.
  • Engage and involve stakeholders in EDS22 processes together.
  • Peer review our assessment processes and outcomes to promote consistency of approach and score.
  • Share and co-create the materials needed to implement the EDS22 to ensure effective use of our resources.

For more information on our approach please contact Christine Joy, Chief People Officer NHS South Yorkshire – Christine.joy@nhs.net

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EDS report 22/23