The National Leadership Council's (NLC's) Inclusion team and the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement's Breaking Through (BT) team have now come together to form the Leadership for Equality (L4E) workstream for the new NHS Leadership Academy.
The L4E strategy builds on BT and NLC's Inclusion strategy to focus on:
- Building Inclusion into the architecture
- Building the talent pipeline
- Strengethening accountability - support Equality Diversity Council (EDC) to implement the Equality Diversity System (EDS)
- Address and develop senior leadership capability in inclusion and diversity
- Retaining existing diversity through transition
- Build NHS capability to develop different leaders
Read an 
Evaluation of Breaking Through Programmes (423.06 KB), carried out in 2010, which demonstrates that of more than 271 participants, more than 52 per cent had been promoted to a senior position.
The Equality and Diversity System for the NHS is now available. Read the documents here:
Breaking Through Newsletters
Read the Breaking Through Newsletter for Spring 2011: Breaking Through Newsletter Spring 2011 (187.08 KB)
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"Today’s NHS has a responsibility to fully reflect the population it serves. I am fully committed to ensuring there are people from diverse backgrounds at all levels of the service but particularly in more senior positions where representation is poor."
David Nicholson, NHS Chief Executive
