Barts Health Equality and Human Rights Impact Assessment Report

Barts Health Equality and Human Rights Impact Assessment ReportVI. AN EQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACTASSESSMENT1. IntroductionThis final section includes an equality analysis of the proposed merger in the light ofevidence included in the previous two sections (the Baseline Review and Local StakeholdersViews). In particular, brap were asked to:examine the impact of the merger on health inequalities in North East London and on thethree arms of the public equality duty in relation to protected characteristics as definedby the Actdescribe the negative and positive impacts of the merger (and who these will affect) andcentral issues that need to be addressed to mitigate the negative impactsidentify steps the merged trust can take to achieve compliance with its PSED in light ofconclusions of analysis of baseline data and stakeholder consultationfocus on equality and human rightsIn addition to this, following discussion with the project working group, brap were informedthat the merged Trust is likely to pursue the (non-mandatory) Equality Delivery System(EDS) for the NHS in the future. The three Trusts have not used the EDS this year and arewaiting for the proposed merger to happen before initiating work on this. Although this hasyet to be confirmed, the EDS is likely to help shape the equality and human rights relatedwork of the merged Trust going forward.2. ApproachThe brief for this equality and human rights analysis is a relatively complex one. It requiresanalysis to focus on both equality and human rights. It also needs to be useful for themerged Trust going forward (helping them to respond to the Public Sector Equality Duty andpotentially the NHS EDS). A bespoke approach to undertaking the analysis was requiredand this is described below:EDS Goals were used to structure the scope of this equality analysis as it was felt the fourbroad goals provided sufficient scope to cover issues encountered through our research andwere relevant to the equality and human rights implications of the merger. Within those fourbroad EDS goals there are an additional 18 detailed outcomes that were also used to guideenquiry (though the equality analysis below does not refer to these more detailed outcomesspecifically). This approach was chosen to provide the Trust with a useful ‘head start’ indeveloping its future response to the EDS. It would help signpost the merged Trust to keyequality and human rights issues relevant to each EDS goal.189