Barts Health Equality and Human Rights Impact Assessment Report

Barts Health Equality and Human Rights Impact Assessment ReportAvailable data about the percentage of the local working age population who are disabled isfrom 2009 (two years earlier than the data in the table above). However, presuming thereare not significant changes in the local population over that two-year period, disabled staffare significantly underrepresented in the three Trusts compared to the local population.Figures from 2009 show 14.9% of people of working age in Newham were disabled, 16.8%in Tower Hamlets (catchment area of Barts and the London) and 15.7% in Waltham Forest(catchment area of Whipps Cross) (see Part 2 on demography for more information).However, this discrepancy is also probably due in no small part to low levels of disclosure.All the three Trusts acknowledge that work needs to be done to improve staff disclosurerates on this issue. 7 The paucity of data affects analyses of other indicators later in thereport.Figure 2.1.1a: Staff in post by age group (Barts and the London and Whipps Cross)7 For example, Barts and the London NHS Trust (2012) Annual Equality Report; Newham UniversityHospital NHS Trust (2011) Annual Equality and Diversity Report 2011; and Whipps Cross (2011)Whipps Cross University Hospital NHS Trust HR Department Workforce (Equalities) InformationReport January to June 201131