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Our equality objectives, approved by the NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire ICB Board in March 2025, set out how we will work to reduce health inequalities, improve equity and create a more inclusive organisation.

The objectives focus on four priority areas: maternity care, ethnicity data recording, workforce equality and cardiovascular disease.  Together, they will help us identify and address inequalities in health and care across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

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• To make recruitment practice more equitable, making year-on-year improvements in hiring outcomes for those from racialised communities as compared to 2023/24 disparity data.
• A year-on-year reduction in the disparity for colleagues from racialised communities and those with disabilities in relation to bullying, harassment and discrimination from managers and colleagues as reported in staff survey data in comparison to 2024 data.
• To increase the proportion of staff from racialised communities in Band 8a or above to 12% by April 2028.
• To continue to reduce the gender pay gap year-on-year, ensuring that the proportion of females within the upper quartile is comparable to the overall organisation composition.

Cardiovascular disease

Because cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the largest contributors to health inequalities. NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire ICB aims to improve the treatment of high blood pressure in our Black African and Caribbean populations so that 80% reach treatment targets by 2029.

We will also reduce the gap between our Black African and Caribbean populations and our white population to within 3 percentage points

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To increase the administration of optimally timed antenatal steroids and magnesium sulphate in our population racialised as Black at risk of pre-term birth within Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire by March 2026

Ethnicity data recording

Increase the completeness of ethnicity recording in the patient administration systems of Bristol NHS Foundation Trust and Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust to 80% for Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire patients by 2027.

We are currently developing our organisational development plan, which will further detail the activities being undertaken to support these strategic objectives, some of which can be found within our Public Sector Equality Duty report.