Equality, diversity and inclusion
Read our WeBelong strategy to find out how we are creating an equitable organisation
Getting to a place where WeBelong
We are diverse
We serve one of the most diverse populations in the country, and we're committed to eliminating discrimination, valuing diversity and promoting equality of opportunity to build and sustain an inclusive environment to deliver and receive safe and compassionate care.
Our main local areas, Newham and Tower Hamlets, together with Waltham Forest, are among London’s youngest, most diverse and most deprived communities, with a significantly higher proportion of people aged 24 and under than the UK average. Parts of northeast London are also anticipating an increase in residents aged over 65, with resultant implications for health care as older people are generally higher users of health services.
Equality, diversity and inclusion
Fair treatment for all
It is our policy to ensure that no service-user, employee or job applicant is treated less favourably on the grounds of their sex, colour, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, social background, marital status, hours worked, responsibilities as a carer, trade union activities, unrelated criminal conviction, or blood-borne virus status.
How to give us feedback
If you have any suggestions on how we could further improve, please share them with us. You can email the inclusion team or write to:
The inclusion team
Organisational development
Barts Health NHS Trust
Floors 8 and 9
20 Churchill Place
Canary Wharf
London
E14 5HJ
Our staff networks
Our staff networks
One of the ways we are helping Barts Health become a place WeBelong is through the development of specific staff networks that contribute to addressing and solving problems for all under-represented and disadvantaged groups and individuals within our organisation.
We have six staff networks:
- BAME network
- Women's network
- BartsAbility network
- LGBTQ+ network
- Carer's network
- Interfaith network
Our diversity networks offer a place for staff to come together, share experiences and facilitate learning and development. In turn, they help to shape the way we work so we can be an inclusive place for both staff and patients.
Annual equity information
As equality is at the heart of our continued commitment to be the best employer of choice and the very best environment for receiving healthcare and to also meet statutory requirements, each year we publish our equality information:
2025
- Gender pay gap report 2025[pdf] 3MB
- 2025 Workforce Disability Equality Standard (WDES)[pdf] 987KB
- 2025 Workforce Race Equality Standard report[pdf] 1MB
2024
- NHS Equality Delivery System Report 2023-24 [pdf] 912KB
- Workforce Race Equality Standards report 2023-24 [docx] 530KB
- Workforce Disability Equality Standards report 2023-24[docx] 733KB
2023
- Gender Pay Gap 2023 [pdf] 1MB
- WRES (Workforce Race Equality Standard) 2023 [pdf] 1003KB
- WDES (Workforce Disability Equality Standard) 2023 [pdf] 1MB
2022
- NHS Equality Delivery System 2022 [pdf] 259KB
- WRES (Workforce Race Equality Standard) 2022 [pdf]
- WDES (Workforce Disability Equality Standard) 2022 [pdf]
- Gender Pay Gap 2022 [pdf] 1MB
- Career Development.pdf [pdf] 4MB
2021
- WeBelong one year on report [docx] 3MB
- WDES 2021 [docx] 420KB
- WRES Report 2021[docx] 394KB
- Inclusion matters: equality information report 2020-21 (including gender pay gap report) [pdf] 3MB
2020
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