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<p>The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), a statutory body established under
the Equality Act 2006, is the regulator of the public sector equality duty (PSED).
The EHRC works with National Health Service bodies as public authorities to encourage,
guide, monitor and regulate activity on the public sector equality duty, including
the extent to which NHS service provision is meeting the requirements of the equality
duty.</p><p>NHS England hosts the Equality and Diversity Council (EDC) and thereby
helps to support organisations to meet the PSED, through initiatives and levers such
as the Equality Delivery System (EDS2) and the development of information standards
to enable consistent monitoring of access, experience and outcomes from healthcare
across protected groups. The EDC has also committed to develop workforce equality
standards across the protected groups.</p><p>The Care Quality Commission includes
equality in its inspection regime and forthcoming waves of inspection will specifically
include EDS2.</p>
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