Equality Impact Assessment

NHS Tayside is required by law to assess the impact of policies, practices and functions on people with a Protected Characteristic(s) and equality groups and are held to account for equality implications at the point of making decisions.

Equality and Human Rights legislation protects the rights and position of population groups known to be disadvantaged in mainstream society and provides a better tool for better and more transparent decision making, including financial decisions.

Consideration of equality underpins all of the ambitions of the Healthcare Quality Strategy, Person Centred, Safe and Effective.

Equality Impact Assessment Process

At NHS Tayside, we have created a Combined Equality Impact Assessment (CEQIA), which brings together all required assessment of Equalities, UN Convention on Rights of a Child (UNCRC) and the Consumer Duty. It also includes the Fairer Scotland Duty Assessment.

In general, the Equality Impact Assessment process also covers 4 key areas of impact for equality groups and people with protected characteristic(s):

  • the equality and diversity impact
  • the human rights impact
  • the health inequalities impact
  • the impact assessment of financial decisions

Combined Equality Impact Assessment (CEQIA) Policy

The Combined Equality Impact Assessment policy defines the process by which NHS Tayside assesses the impact of their policies, functions, service improvement and or service change on people with Protected Characteristic(s).

The Combined Equality Impact Assessment is intended to highlight potential health and wellbeing and impacts on equality groups and / or people with Protected Characteristic(s) based on the knowledge and understanding of the stakeholders who participate.  This then helps to identify any ways in which the policy or service improvement / redesign should be changed to address any adverse impact or barriers that may be identified for Protected Characteristic(s), equality groups / communities and socio-economically deprived / poverty groups.

NHS Tayside's CEQIAs

NHS Tayside upholds a rigorous process to support staff in the completion of CEQIAs, ensuring that we fulfil our statutory duty and identify potential impacts on certain groups before a policy, project, strategy or service redesign is completed. If you would like further information on the CEQIAs we have completed, please contact the Corporate Equalities Team who will be happy to help you: tay.corporateequalities@nhs.scot
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