Carol McIndoe from Chatteris shortlisted for Women in Tech Excellence Awards

A woman from Chatteris has been shortlisted for a prestigious award for her work in tackling health inequalities.

Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust announced that Carol McIndoe has been shortlisted for the Women in Tech Excellence Awards 2024 for diversity and inclusion initiative of the year.

Carol is the equality, diversity and inclusion lead for patient experience at the trust. Her work allows comprehensive demographic data to be captured from patients and service users across the trust.

She has been shortlisted for the award alongside her colleague Ruth McLaren, from Paston, who is the clinical systems manager.

Carol said: “Since the introduction of The Equality Act 2010, awareness has grown in the UK around equality, diversity and inclusion in general, but also of the discrimination being experienced by people due to certain characteristics and circumstances, such as migrants, military veterans, carers and those who have experienced homelessness.

“There are shocking disparities around health outcomes in our population and we designed the demographic questions template to help us gain better insight into patients’ individual needs and circumstances, some of which may put a person at risk of experiencing health inequalities.”

The Women in Tech Excellence Awards 2024 recognise, celebrate and showcase trailblazing women from across the technology industry who still make up a minority of the tech workforce.

The Diversity and Inclusion Initiative of the Year award will be presented to an organisation who has launched the best diversity and inclusion initiative over the last 12 months and the winner will be announced at an awards ceremony on 27 November 2024 at Hilton Park Lane in London.

Mark Crannage, Associate Director of Business Information and Digital Systems at CCS NHST said: “This is a remarkable achievement as the award is open to women in technology across all public sector and private industries and I’m incredibly proud of Carol and Ruth.”

Earlier this year, the demographic data capture template was shortlisted for the digital equality, diversity and inclusion award at the 2024 Health Service Journal (HSJ) Digital Awards.

The 2024 shortlist for the Women in Tech Excellence Awards can be found online.

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