Equality impact assessments (EIAs): Proposed city-wide relocation of GP surgeries to health hubs

South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) was awarded £37m, through the ‘levelling up fund’ to relocate a large number of Sheffield GP practices across the city to up to five new, larger health hubs. These new health centres would bring together existing GP practices, other health services, and some voluntary services under one roof.  



We were commissioned to undertake an independent equality impact assessment of these plans, in two phases. Phase 1 following initial engagement with the public, with the aim to inform a formal consultation; Phase 2 following the consultation.

Stakeholder engagement for improving diversity and inclusion in the historic environment workforce

Our client was Historic Environment Scotland, on behalf of the sector-wide Steering Group of employers, development bodies, public bodies and community groups

Our work was part of the Improving Access Project which aims to improve access to the Scottish heritage workforce for people from diverse backgrounds, and understand the current barriers. 

Evaluation of specialist equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) training

We were commissioned to evaluate equality, diversity and inclusion training and development for line managers at the National Library of Scotland. This project was part of a Lottery funded programme to increase diversity in the heritage sector workforce, with the learning from this project to feed into the wider programme.

Our evaluation had to assess the impact of the training on each cohort’s EDI knowledge, attitudes, confidence and readiness to engage with EDI issues using cohort-specific learning and development indicators.