We see about a million patients a year, and we are proud to be delivering a wide range of health services to diverse communities in Leeds and across the region. Diversity and difference are strengths that enrich our hospitals 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 want to make sure that equality and diversity is always at the centre of our work and is embedded into our core business activities.
Leeds Teaching Hospitals acknowledges all protected characteristics to be of equal importance, including age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We also recognise and celebrate differences more broadly to work towards a fully inclusive culture, where everyone feels that they belong.
Leeds Teaching Hospitals created our Equality and Diversity Strategic Group in November 2013, led by the Chief Nurse / Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Human Resources and Organisational Development, to deliver on the equality and diversity agenda. In 2020 the group expanded into two separate groups in response to the evolving agenda, with one group focusing on workforce and the other patients.