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Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Integrated Care System, we are proud to serve a great range of diverse communities across our area. We do this with an incredibly versatile team of health and care workers and volunteers.

As Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Integrated Care System, we are proud to serve a great range of diverse communities across our area. We do this with an incredibly versatile team of health and care workers and volunteers.

We want to make sure that everyone in our area has the best opportunities to live the healthiest life possible – no matter what their background, including their ethnicity, gender identity, age or religion, is. We also want to create a working environment for colleagues across the Integrated Care System where everyone can bring their full selves to work.

The ICS is driven by and influence system priorities, strategies, and plans.  Success will be achieved through thoughtful and meaningful cross-system collaboration; and think differently in service of innovation and action. We have three priority workforce groups, within the ICS:

  • Recruitment & Retention
  • Equality Diversity Inclusion
  • Leadership & Culture

In addition, we have subgroups for these priority groups and several enabler groups to serve the priority areas. Our EDI objectives are linked to the antiracism strategy and the three main objectives are:

  1. Create an inclusive environment for all staff and residents
  2. Improve cultural literacy across the system
  3. Develop a repeatable model to embed anti-racism strategy

Equality information regarding our workforce

The following table sets out how the top level ethnicity information of our total ICB workforce, compares to national NHS England data.

Comparison of top level ethnicity information - ICB workforce versus national data
Ethnicity Our Integrated Care Board staff National NHS England data
White 68.4% 69.3%
BAME 25% 24.3%
Any other ethnic group 1.8% 1.7%
Not stated 4.9% 4.6%

The following table sets out how the top level ethnicity information of those ICB staff on Agenda for Change pay bands, compares to national NHS England data.

Comparison of top level ethnicity information - ICB AfC workforce versus national data
Ethnicity Our AfC Integrated Care Board staff National NHS England data
White 72.2% 72.7%
BAME 22.3% 22.2%
Any other ethnic group 1.5% 1.3%
Not stated 4.1% 3.8%

Equality information regarding our service users

The table below sets out the ethnicity profile of our communities in Cambridgeshire and in Peterborough, compared to national and regional data.

Ethnicity profile of our communities, compared to national and regional data
Ethnicity Peterborough Cambridgeshire East of England National
White 75.4% 88.6% 86.5% 81%
Asian 14.3% 5.8% 6.4% 9.6%
Black 4.1% 1.4% 2.9% 4.2%
Mixed 3.5% 2.9% 2.8% 3%
Other 2.7% 1.3% 1.4% 2.2%

Gender pay gap information

You can access our gender pay gap reports below.