Cultures and workplaces where people are engaged, experience compassion and feel included will result not only in being a place that our people enjoy working in and thrive, but also in improved patient experience, better outcomes for our beneficiaries (patients) and care too.
Our People Experience Strategy is a critical enabler to the Spectrum Business Strategy 2025-2028. One of the pillars of the People Experience Strategy is focused on Culture & Compassionate Leadership. We want to enable all our staff to feel be valued for who they are and be able bring their whole self to work because we celebrate diversity and lived experience and are inclusive. We need our leaders and managers to create compassionate, inclusive and patient outcome focused cultures where our values are evident every day and you can thrive.
The WRES and WDES reports are important to help us understand where we are now, how staff who are from BME backgrounds or those who have a disability feel about working here and develop improvement plans that address any concerns.
The main purpose of the WRES is:
- to help Spectrum CIC to review their data against the nine WRES indicators,
- to produce action plans to close the gaps in workplace experience between white and Black and Ethnic Minority (BAME) colleagues, and,
- to improve BAME representation at the Board level of the
The following data provides insight into Spectrum’s position for the period 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026 against WRES Indicators.
The WRES metrics for Spectrum will be uploaded to meet the National deadline of 31st October 2026.
Wherever possible, Spectrum no longer uses the term BAME and prefers to use global majority, but in order to align this report with the national statistics we have continue to use the term throughout to avoid confusion.