NHS Employers join Employers’ Forum on Disability
10th November 2006
NHS Employers have become core funders of Employers' Forum on Disability (EFD), joining as gold members.
The employers' organisation for the National Health Service in England becomes the 43rd gold member of EFD and one of 395 members.
Employers' Forum on Disability is the employers' organisation focused on the issue of disability in the workplace and is widely recognised as the authoritative voice on disability as it affects employers and service providers.
By becoming a gold member of EFD, NHS Employers joins an exclusive group of core funders, whose support is fundamental to EFD building its capacity to make it easier to employ disabled people, serve disabled customers and value disabled people as stakeholders.
Steve Barnett, Director of NHS Employers said: ‘We are delighted to join Employers' Forum on Disability on behalf of employers in the NHS.
"Our membership of EFD will give us access to world-class leaders in disability whose expertise will be invaluable to the NHS.
"We will work in partnership with EFD to ensure that we can help employers to better support their members of staff with disabilities and to create more and better opportunities for people with a disability to come to work in the NHS."
Susan Scott-Parker, chief executive of Employers' Forum on Disability said: "We're extremely pleased that NHS Employers have chosen to join EFD as gold members.
"I hope to see other employers' organisations follow their lead by becoming core funders - and demonstrating their commitment to becoming disability confident in their own right, while to helping their membership to realise the potential of disabled people as employees, customers, service users and valued stakeholders."
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About NHS Employers
NHS Employers is the employers' organisation for the NHS in England, giving employers throughout the NHS an independent voice on workforce and employment matters. The goal of NHS Employers is to make the NHS an employer of excellence.
For further information on NHS Employers please visit http://www.nhsemployers.org/.
Media enquiries, please contact:
Liz Nightingale, Communications Manager
Employers' Forum on Disability
Email: liz.nightingale@efd.org.uk
Telephone: 020 7403 3020
About Employers' Forum on Disability
Employers' Forum on Disability is the employers' organisation focused on disability as it affects employers and service providers. With over 400 members, EFD represents organisations that employ around 20 per cent of the UK workforce.Since its establishment in 1991, EFD has worked closely with government and other stakeholders, sharing best practice to make it easier to employ disabled people and serve disabled customers.