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. Our first equality information report, which was published on 31 January 2012, can be found here: public sector equality duty compliance report 2012.
Our second report will be published on this page shortly.
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:
Head of Patient Experience: telephone 0113 206 7212 or email 
Juliette.Cosgrove(at)leedsth.nhs.uk
