The Pacesetters Programme is a partnership between local communities who experience health inequalities, the NHS and the Department of Health. The Equality and Human Rights Group will work with up to five Strategic Health Authorities on the programme. Within each Pacesetter area, three Trusts will participate in the programme. The overall aim of the programme is to deliver equality and diversity improvements and innovations resulting in:

Patient and user involvement in the design and delivery of services;
Reduced health inequalities for patients and service users;
Working environments that are fair and free of discrimination.
The inequalities are those arising from discrimination on account of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, religion, and sexual orientation and gender identity. In the language of the Programme, these are the six equality strands.

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