Patient Profile PSED Report 2023-24
Meeting the general equality duty
Which of the three aims is this information relevant to?
- Eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation and other conduct prohibited by the Act.
- Advance equality of opportunity between people who share a protected characteristic and those who do not.
- Foster good relations between people who share a protected characteristic and those who do not.
How does this information help us to show we are paying due regards to advancing equality?
By analysing our patient profile by protected characteristic we can look at which patient groups are accessing our services. It enables us to look at patterns of service uptake and understand our patient flows. This can help us identify and understand any potential inequalities of access. A heightened awareness can help us to take a more proactive approach in ensuring equity of access across all the protected characteristic groups.
Data presented in this document covers the period from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2024, split into individual financial years across each of the Care Groups.
The Care Group structure has been introduced during the last financial year to better align each of the services and specialties, which were previously structured into Divisions.
The ethnic categories across our acute and community services have also been updated to match the definitions in the NHS Data Dictionary, all systems now use the national list of sixteen categories, plus ‘Not known’ and ‘Not stated’
To apply these changes, the full dataset has been fully refreshed for the previous five years activity rather than merging this year’s data on to previously published information.
Overall, the volume of patients accessing the Trust continued to increase during the year 2023/24. This highlights the continued recovery from the effect the Covid-19 pandemic had on our services, the continued work to reduce our waiting list and a rise in demand for our services.