Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Our commitments to you

This is reflected and reinforced in our ‘vision and values’.

Our Commitment

• We will celebrate and harness our unique, rich and diverse communities and workforce
• We want everyone who comes into contact with the Trust to feel valued and respected
• We will provide services to all our communities in a fair and appropriate way
• We want to remove any barriers for people when they are accessing our services

Anti-Racism Statement

We have a trust Anti-Racism Statement which sets out our explicit opposition to racism and discrimination, which are the major drivers behind the health inequalities we still see today. You can read the statement here: Anti Racism Statement – Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

Zero tolerance poster

The poster below shows our zero tolerance for abuse and discrimination.

Public Sector Equality Duty Publication

The Public Sector Specific Equality Duties require NHS Trusts to publish information that demonstrates compliance with the general equality duty. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust publishes our annual equality report to demonstrate our compliance:

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Workforce Equality Monitoring Report 2025-2026 (507kB pdf)

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy

We recognise that EDI is a central feature of delivering compassionate care and maintaining a quality driven highly-skilled workforce. Achieving diversity within our workforce and embedding inclusivity is a core requirement for all NHS health and care providers.

The quality of patient experience cannot be separated from the quality of staff experience. Inequalities in workforce diversity cannot be divorced from inequalities of health outcomes, and there maintains an interdependency and correlation.

Our new joint EDI Workforce Strategy with Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust for the years 2026-29 is now available below.

Workforce_EDI_Strategy_2026-29 (882kB pdf)

Workforce Race Equality Standard

NHS England have incorporated the Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) into the 2015/16 NHS Standard Contact. The standard requires organisations to demonstrate progress against a number of indicators of workforce equality. Our results and associated action plan are  published below.

Stockport NHSFT Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) 2025 (943kB docx)

Workforce Disability Equality Standard

NHS England have incorporated the Workforce Disability Equality Standard (WDES) into the 2019 NHS Standard Contact. The standard requires organisations to demonstrate progress against a number of indicators of workforce equality. Our results and associated action plans are published below.

Stockport NHSFT Workforce Disability Equality Standard (WDES) 2025 (897kB docx)

Gender pay gap reporting

On 31 March 2017, it became mandatory for public sector organisations with more than 250 employees to report annually on their gender pay gap. The gender pay gap is an equality measure that shows the difference in average earnings between women and men. In order to meet this legislation, we have published our gender pay gap below and on the Government’s website.

Gender Pay Gap Report 2024-25 – Stockport NHSFT (285kB pdf)