Equality and Diversity
Equality and Diversity
Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust is one of the largest and busiest NHS trusts in the country. We see about a million patients a year who are drawn from large and evolving local and regional populations.
We are proud to be delivering a wide range of health services to the diverse communities in Leeds and across the region. We recognise that diversity and difference are strengths that enrich the work of our organisation and help us to deliver services that meet the needs of our local communities.
We are committed to challenging discrimination and promoting equality both as an employer and a major provider of health care services. We aim to make sure that equality and diversity is at the centre of our work, and is embedded into our core business activities.
We welcome the new public sector equality duty (PSED), which places an emphasis on transparency and public accountability. We have recently published our equality information, which tells you how we are performing on equality and what we are doing to meet the new equality duty.
Read our public sector equality duty compliance report.
We are committed to involving patients, carers, staff and local communities in our equality and diversity work. We are working in partnership with the other major NHS trusts in Leeds and local community groups to implement the new national Equality Delivery System (EDS). As part of a wider review of our equality and diversity work across the Trust, we used the EDS framework to help us assess our equality performance, identify information gaps and set our equality objectives for 2012 - 2016.
If you would like to know more about our equality and diversity work, please contact:
Equality and Diversity Manager: telephone 0113 392 3116 or email 
kathryn.bell(at)leedsth.nhs.uk
Head of Human Resources for Equality and Diversity: telephone 0113 206 4146 or email maxine.morris(at)leedsth.nhs.uk
