Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) Metrics and Action Plan 2024-2025
Countess of Chester NHS Foundation Trust is dedicated to becoming an inclusive employer of choice for candidate’s ethnic minority groups, and to improving the workplace experiences of ethnic minority colleagues.
The actions planned, outlined in section 3, are part of the Trust's overarching Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy 2023- 2026 as aligned to the NHS Improvement Plan 2023 and will further improve the Trust's performance against the nine statutory WRES indicators.
You can access our WDES report action plan here..
The WRES Metrics
| Total Workforce |
2021/2022 |
2022/2023 |
2023/2024 |
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% WHITE |
% BME |
% ETHNICITY UNKNOWN/NULL |
% WHITE |
% BME |
% ETHNICITY UNKNOWN/NULL |
% WHITE |
% BME |
% ETHNICITY UNKNOWN/NULL |
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86.8% |
11.2% |
2.0% |
82.7% |
16.0% |
1.3% |
82.1% |
16.6% |
1.4% |
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| 1a) Non Clinical Staff |
2021/2022 |
2022/2023 |
2023/2024 |
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% WHITE |
% BME |
% ETHNICITY UNKNOWN/NULL |
% WHITE |
% BME |
% ETHNICITY UNKNOWN/NULL |
% WHITE |
% BME |
% ETHNICITY UNKNOWN/NULL |
| Band 1 |
89.0% |
8.0% |
3.0% |
89.8% |
10.2% |
0.0% |
87.5% |
12.5% |
0.0% |
| Band 2 |
93.1% |
3.2% |
3.7% |
94.8% |
3.1% |
2.1% |
93.5% |
4.7% |
1.8% |
| Band 3 |
93.4% |
4.4% |
2.2% |
94.7% |
4.5% |
0.8% |
94.7% |
4.2% |
1.1% |
| Band 4 |
95.8% |
3.5% |
0.7% |
94.9% |
4.4% |
0.7% |
95.0% |
3.8% |
1.3% |
| Band 5 |
92.8% |
3.6% |
3.6% |
94.5% |
2.2% |
3.3% |
95.1% |
2.9% |
2.0% |
| Band 6 |
98.4% |
1.6% |
0.0% |
98.2% |
1.8% |
0.0% |
94.5% |
5.5% |
0.0% |
| Band 7 |
93.4% |
3.3% |
3.3% |
98.4% |
1.6% |
0.0% |
97.0% |
3.0% |
0.0% |
| Band 8a |
100.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
96.7% |
0.0% |
3.3% |
95.0% |
2.5% |
2.5% |
| Band 8b |
100.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
100.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
100.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
| Band 8c |
100.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
100.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
91.7% |
8.3% |
0.0% |
| Band 8d |
100.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
100.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
100.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
| Band 9 |
100.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
100.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
100.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
| VSM |
83.3% |
0.0% |
16.7% |
83.3% |
0.0% |
16.7% |
100.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
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| 1b) Clinical Staff |
2021/2022 |
2022/2023 |
2023/2024 |
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% WHITE |
% BME |
% ETHNICITY UNKNOWN/NULL |
% WHITE |
% BME |
% ETHNICITY UNKNOWN/NULL |
% WHITE |
% BME |
% ETHNICITY UNKNOWN/NULL |
| Band 1 |
87.5% |
12.5% |
0.0% |
88.9% |
11.1% |
0.0% |
100.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
| Band 2 |
92.1% |
6.6% |
1.3% |
91.0% |
7.8% |
1.2% |
88.1% |
10.1% |
1.8% |
| Band 3 |
80.4% |
18.8% |
0.8% |
76.4% |
22.9% |
0.6% |
95.6% |
3.8% |
0.7% |
| Band 4 |
94.8% |
2.2% |
3.0% |
95.8% |
2.8% |
1.4% |
95.8% |
2.8% |
1.4% |
| Band 5 |
75.6% |
23.6% |
0.8% |
61.7% |
37.5% |
0.8% |
56.7% |
42.5% |
0.8% |
| Band 6 |
94.1% |
4.5% |
1.5% |
93.3% |
5.5% |
1.3% |
92.5% |
6.4% |
1.1% |
| Band 7 |
95.0% |
3.0% |
2.0% |
93.9% |
3.5% |
2.6% |
93.2% |
4.6% |
2.2% |
| Band 8a |
94.5% |
3.6% |
1.8% |
94.2% |
5.0% |
0.8% |
96.8% |
2.4% |
0.8% |
| Band 8b |
100.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
100.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
96.2% |
3.8% |
0.0% |
| Band 8c |
100.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
100.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
100.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
| Band 8d |
100.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
100.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
100.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
| Band 9 |
100.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
100.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
100.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
| VSM |
100.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
100.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
100.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
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| 1c) Medical & Dental Staff |
2021/2022 |
2022/2023 |
2023/2024 |
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% WHITE |
% BME |
% ETHNICITY UNKNOWN/NULL |
% WHITE |
% BME |
% ETHNICITY UNKNOWN/NULL |
% WHITE |
% BME |
% ETHNICITY UNKNOWN/NULL |
| Medical & Dental Staff, Consultants |
58.8% |
38.8% |
2.5% |
57.9% |
40.9% |
1.2% |
61.8% |
37.0% |
1.2% |
| Medical & Dental Staff, Non-Consultants career grade |
32.8% |
62.7% |
4.5% |
27.6% |
69.7% |
2.6% |
27.1% |
67.1% |
5.9% |
| Medical & Dental Staff, Medical and dental trainee grades |
54.0% |
46.0% |
0.0% |
25.3% |
72.3% |
2.4% |
48.2% |
49.1% |
2.7% |
| Other |
0.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
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