Pakistani representation
Dear NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board,
Please would you kindly supply the following data:
1. Number and as a Percentage of overall population, of Pakistanis within the area covered by your organisation
2. Number and Percentage of overall patients, of Pakistanis who are your registered patients within the last complete year
3. Number and as a Percentage of your workforce, of Pakistanis employed by your organisation by grade
4. Number and as a Percentage of the overall, of Pakistanis on your Board
Yours faithfully,
Dr Karamat Iqbal
Dear Dr Karamat Iqbal
Thank You for your email received 11 January 2023 requesting information
regarding Pakistani representation. Your request is being managed under
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Dear Dr Karamat Iqbal
Thank you for your request for information dated 11 January 2023. Your
request has been managed under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act
2000.
Your final response attached.
Yours Sincerely
FOI Team
NHS Birmingham and Solihull
First Floor | Wesleyan | Colmore Circus | Birmingham | B4 6AR
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[2]NHS Birmingham and Solihull (icb.nhs.uk)
Dear FOI, Bsol (NHS BIRMINGHAM AND SOLIHULL ICB - 15E),
Thank you for the information you have supplied. A supplementary question I have is:
whether you have any Positive Action strategies in place, concerning any Pakistani under-representation in the workforce or on your governance Board.
Yours sincerely,
Dr Karamat Iqbal
Good Afternoon
Following your most recent e-mail, the response the FOI team have received is as follows:
Positive Action is covered in our Equality Strategy (slide 26); and EDI Policy. The ICB do not specifically target action at individual ethnic origin categories, such as Asian Pakistani but take a wider view where there is under-representation of minority ethnic groups at a particular pay band.
The ICB is working towards the NHS requirements, set out in the Workforce Race Equality Standard Model Employer paper, published in January 2019, this sets out an ambition to increase black and minority ethnic representation at all levels of workforce by 2028.
Our positive action work covers all levels of the organisation.
Kind Regards
The ICB FOI Team
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