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Inequalities in the Medical Workplace

Reference: 23-24393

Date response sent: 17/01/2024

Details of enquiry

  1. Does your trust have a suitable area for staff where breastfeeding / milk expression can take place which meets the criteria of the Health and Safety Executive (criteria below)?

Criteria: ‘You must provide a suitable area where pregnant workers and breastfeeding mothers can rest. It should include somewhere to lie down if necessary, be hygienic and private so they can express milk if they choose to – toilets are not a suitable place for this, include somewhere to store their mil, for example a fridge?’  

  1. Do you hold facilities which are equipped to store expressed milk which staff can access (including during night and weekend duties)?
  2. Do your staff have access to a workplace nursery?
  3. Do you offer any other forms of employer supported childcare benefits?
  4. Have you performed any analysis on your pay data by ethnicity? including pay gaps, awards e.g. clinical excellence awards.
    1. If yes. Have you separated the analysis to look at the ethnicity pay gap of your medical workforce?
  5. Does your organisation provide an independent route (not HR or management) where staff can raise concerns of discrimination?
  6. Do all staff inductions (including medical students on work placements and doctors on short term contracts) include information about how to raise concerns?
  7. Does your trust use the NHS England Just Culture Guide or a similar process when investigating incidents of patient safety?
  8. Does your trust have a menopause policy?
  9. Has your trust implemented the recommendations from Section 7. Appendix B of the NHS England Uniforms and Workwear Guidance (regarding accommodating faith groups) into your local policies?

 

  1. Does your trust provide an induction for newly recruited international medical graduates?
    1. If yes. Does your induction meet the minimum requirements set out in the document Welcoming and Valuing International Medical Graduates: A guide to induction for IMGs recruited to the NHS?
  2. What number of SAS doctors that you employ are in leadership or extended roles? Respond as far as possible where you do collect the information. Please state in the comments column if you do not collect this information.

Response sent

Answer Additional information
Q1 Does your trust have a suitable area for staff where breastfeeding / milk expression can take place which meets the criteria of the Health and Safety Executive? (see criteria in the cover letter) No  
Q2 Do you hold facilities which are equipped to store expressed milk which staff can access (including during night and weekend duties)? No  
Q3 Do your staff have access to a workplace nursery? No  
Q4 Do you offer any other forms of employer supported childcare benefits? No  
Q5 Have you performed any analysis on your pay data by ethnicity? including pay gaps, awards e.g. clinical excellence awards. Yes  
Q5a If yes. Have you separated the analysis to look at the ethnicity pay gap of your medical workforce?    
Q6 Does your organisation provide an independent route (not HR or management) where staff can raise concerns of discrimination? Yes  
Q7 Do all staff inductions (including medical students on work placements and doctors on short term contracts) include information about how to raise concerns? Yes  
Q8 Does your trust use the NHS England Just Culture Guide or a similar process when investigating incidents of patient safety? No We are currently revamping our disciplinary, bullying and harassment, capability and grievance procedures and will be incorporating just culture into these.  We have already incorporated just culture into our new supporting health and wellbeing policy and procedure]
Q9 Does your trust have a menopause policy? No We have a draft menopause policy awaiting executive sign off and which will launch shortly
Q10 Has your trust implemented the recommendations from Section 7. Appendix B of the NHS England Uniforms and Workwear Guidance (regarding accommodating faith groups) into your local policies? No Except for our facilities staff, none of our employees wear uniforms
Q11 Does your trust provide an induction for newly recruited international medical graduates? No  
Q11a If yes. Does your induction meet the minimum requirements set out in the document Welcoming and Valuing International Medical Graduates: A guide to induction for IMGs recruited to the NHS?    
Q12 What number of SAS doctors that you employ are in leadership or extended roles?    
  Total doctors employed 57    
  Total SAS doctors employed  6    
  SAS clinical leads  0    
  SAS directors  0    
  SAS appraisers  0    
  SAS appraisal leads  0    
  SAS clinical governance leads  0    
  SAS medical directors  0    
  SAS educational supervisors  0    
  SAS undergrad education lead  0    

 

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