World Class Commissioning - Equality Impact Assessment
Effective commissioning of local health services is one of the most critical functions of the modern NHS. The purpose of the world class commissioning programme is to rapidly improve the commissioning processes and performance of Primary Care Trusts, with the aim of improving health outcomes and reducing health inequalities.
This report assesses the impact of the World Class Commissioning Assurance Framework and the related World Class Commissioning of Primary Medical Care on the six key equality dimensions of race, disability, gender, age, sexual orientation and religion or belief. In addition to utilising existing intelligence on commissioning, population health and organisational capacity in the context of equality and diversity, the views were sought from a diverse group of statutory and non-statutory agencies to inform our appraisal including Race for Health.
Key Findings/Issues
- Collecting data disaggregated by equality group,
- Widening community involvement,
- Developing organisational capacity to deliver equality and diversity and
- Using health outcome measures to tackle health inequalities as key issues for action.
- Almost all respondents called for the Department of Health to include more explicit references to equality and diversity across the framework.
The assessments produced a number of recommendations for action relevant to primary care trusts, strategic health authorities and the Department of Health itself.
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