Those who work, train and learn within the healthcare system have the right to be safe and feel supported at work.

Organisations across the healthcare system need to work together and individually to tackle unwanted, inappropriate and/or harmful sexual behaviour in the workplace.

We all have a responsibility to ourselves and our colleagues and must act if we witness these behaviours.

As signatories to this charter, we commit to a zero-tolerance approach to any unwanted, inappropriate and/or harmful sexual behaviours towards our workforce. We commit to the following principles and actions to achieve this:

1. We will actively work to eradicate sexual harassment and abuse in the workplace.
2. We will promote a culture that fosters openness and transparency, and does not tolerate unwanted, harmful and/or inappropriate sexual behaviours.
3. We will take an intersectional approach to the sexual safety of our workforce, recognising certain groups will experience sexual harassment and abuse at a disproportionate rate.
4. We will provide appropriate support for those in our workforce who experience unwanted, inappropriate and/or harmful sexual behaviours.
5. We will clearly communicate standards of behaviour. This includes expected action for those who witness inappropriate, unwanted and/or harmful sexual behaviour.
6. We will ensure appropriate, specific, and clear policies are in place. They will include appropriate and timely action against alleged perpetrators.
7. We will ensure  appropriate, specific, and clear training is in place.
8. We will ensure appropriate reporting mechanisms are in place for those experiencing these behaviours.
9. We will take all reports seriously and appropriate and timely action will be taken in all cases.
10. We will capture and share data on prevalence and staff experience transparently.

These commitments will apply to everyone in our organisation equally.

Where any of the above is not currently in place, we commit to work towards ensuring it is in place by July 2024.

To sign up to the charter and for more information on the national domestic abuse and sexual violence work programme, please email england.domesticabusesexualviolence@nhs.net

Further information about the Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Programme please see the FutureNHS collaboration platform: Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Programme – FutureNHS Collaboration Platform

Organisations that have signed the charter

1. 18 Week Support
2. Absolute Care Homes (Central) Limited
3. Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
4. Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
5. Alliance Medical
6. Allied Health Professionals Suffolk, Community Interest Company
7. Arthur Rank Hospice Charity
8. Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
9. Association of Ambulance Chief Executives
10. Association of Anaesthetists
11. Association of Breast Surgery
12. Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland
13. Aurora Medcare
14. Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
15. Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
16. Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
17. Barts Health NHS Trust
18. Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
19. Benenden Hospital
20. Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
21. Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
22. Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
23. Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Trust
24. Black Country Health Care Foundation Trust
25. Black Country Integrated Care Board
26. Blackpool Teaching Hospitals
27. Bolton NHS foundation Trust
28. Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust
29. Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
30. Bridgewater Community Healthcare
31. BrisDoc Healthcare Services Ltd
32. Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board
33. British and Irish Orthoptic Society
34. British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
35. British Dietetic Association
36. British Medical Association
37. British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society (BOMSS)
38. British Orthopaedic Association
39. British Society of Gastroenterology
40. Bromley Healthcare CIC
41. Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
42. Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board
43. Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
44. Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
45. Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
46. Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
47. Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
48. Central Medical Services Ltd
49. Central North West London NHS Foundation Trust
50. CHEC
51. Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
52. Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
53. Circle Health Group
54. City Health Care Partnership
55. Cleveland Clinic London
56. College of Operating Department Practitioners
57. College of Paramedics
58. Community Hosting and Support
59. Connect Health
60. Cornwall Foundation Trust
61. Countess of Chester NHS Foundation Trust
62. County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
63. Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board
64. Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
65. Croydon Health Services
66. Cumbria, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
67. Cygnet Health Care
68. Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
69. Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Trust
70. Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
71. Devon Partnership NHS Trust
72. DHU Healthcare
73. Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
74. Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
75. Dorset Healthcare University NHS Trust
76. Dudley Integrated Health and Care NHS Trust
77. East Cheshire NHS Trust
78. East Kent Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
79. East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
80. East London NHS Foundation Trust
81. East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust
82. East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust
83. East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
84. East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
85. Elysium Healthcare
86. Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Foundation Trust
87. Essex Partnership University Hospital NHS Trust
88. Everyturn Mental Health
89. Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine – Member of Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
90. First Community Health and Care
91. Frimley Heath NHS Foundation Trust
92. Gateshead NHS Foundation Trust
93. Genesis Care
94. George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
95. Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
96. Great Ormond Street Hospital
97. Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
98. Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
99. GTD Healthcare
100. Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust
101. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
102. Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust
103. HCA Healthcare
104. Health Services Safety Investigations Body
105. Health Transportation Group UK Limited
106. Healthcare Management Trust
107. HealthShare Group
108. Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust
109. Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Trust
110. HomeLink Healthcare
111. Homerton Healthcare
112. Horder Healthcare
113. Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust
114. Hull University Teaching Hospitals
115. Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
116. Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
117. Independent Health Group
118. Independent Healthcare Providers Network
119. InHealth Group
120. Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine
121. Isle of White NHS Trust
122. James Paget University Hospital
123. Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
124. Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
125. King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
126. Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
127. Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board
128. Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
129. Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
130. Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
131. Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
132. Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
133. Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
134. Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust
135. Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board
136. Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
137. Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital
138. Liverpool University Hospitals
139. Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust
140. Livewell Southwest
141. LivingCare Group
142. Locala Health and Wellbeing
143. London Ambulance Service NHS Trust
144. London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
145. Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
146. Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
147. Mayford House Surgery
148. Medneo Diagnostics UK Limited
149. Medway Community Healthcare
150. Medway NHS Foundation Trust
151. Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
152. Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
153. Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
154. Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
155. Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust
156. Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
157. Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
158. Navigo Health and Social Care CiC
159. Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
160. NHS Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Care Board
161. NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board
162. NHS Cheshire and Mersyside
163. NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board
164. NHS Dorset
165. NHS Employers
166. NHS England
167. NHS Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board
168. NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board
169. NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire Integrated Care Board
170. NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
171. NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board
172. NHS Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board
173. NHS North East London Integrated Care Board
174. NHS North West London Integrated Care Board
175. NHS Somerset Integrated Care Board
176. NHS South East London Integrated Care Board
177. NHS Sussex Integrated Care Board
178. NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
179. Nimbuscare
180. Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
181. Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust
182. North Bristol NHS Trust
183. North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
184. North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
185. North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board
186. North East London NHS Foundation Trust
187. North London Mental Health Partnership
188. North Middlesex University Trust
189. North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
190. North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
191. North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust
192. North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
193. Northampton General Hospital
194. Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
195. Northenden Group Practice
196. Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
197. Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust
198. Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
199. Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board
200. Nottingham CityCare Partnership CIC
201. Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
202. Nuffield Health
203. One Medical group
204. Oxford Health Foundation Trust
205. Oxford University Hospitals
206. Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
207. Parkview Medical Centre
208. Pathfinder Group
209. Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
210. Pheonix Hospital Group
211. PHL Group Ltd
212. Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
213. Practice Plus Group
214. Queen Elizabeth Hospital
215. Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
216. Ramsay Health Care UK
217. Richard House Children’s Hospice
218. Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust
219. Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
220. Royal College of Anaesthetists
221. Royal College of Emergency Medicine
222. Royal College of General Practitioners
223. Royal College of Nursing
224. Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
225. Royal College of Ophthalmologists
226. Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
227. Royal College of Physicians
228. Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
229. Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
230. Royal College of Podiatry
231. Royal College of Psychiatrists
232. Royal College of Radiologists
233. Royal College of Surgeons of England
234. Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust
235. Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
236. Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
237. Royal Papworth Hospital
238. Royal Pharmaceutical Society
239. Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
240. Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
241. Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
242. Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
243. Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
244. Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
245. Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
246. Shropshire Community Health Trust
247. Shropshire, Telford, and Wrekin Integrated Care Board
248. Sodexo Health and Care
249. Solent NHS Trust
250. Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
251. South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
252. South East Coast Ambulance NHS Foundation Trust
253. South Tees Hospitals NHs Foundation Trust
254. South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
255. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust
256. South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust
257. South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
258. South Western Ambulance Service Foundation Trust
259. South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
260. Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust
261. Southwest London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust
262. Spencer Private Hospitals Limited
263. Spire Healthcare Limited
264. St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
265. St Oswald’s Hospice
266. Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board
267. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
268. Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board
269. Surrey and Borders Partnership Trust
270. Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care Board
271. Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
272. Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
273. Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
274. Tees Esk and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
275. The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
276. The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
277. The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust
278. The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust
279. The Faculty of Public Health
280. The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
281. The London Clinic
282. The New Foscote Hospital
283. The Princess Alexandra NHS Trust
284. The Private Clinic
285. The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
286. The Rotherham Foundation NHS Trust
287. The Royal College of Emergency Medicine
288. The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
289. The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
290. The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
291. The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
292. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
293. The Society of Radiographers
294. The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
295. The University of Manchester (Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health)
296. The University of Sheffield (Faculty of Health)
297. The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust
298. Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
299. Totally Group PLC
300. Tower Hamlets GP Care Group Community Interest Company
301. Transform Healthcare
302. United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
303. University College Hospitals London
304. University Hospital Dorset
305. University Hospital Plymouth NHS Trust
306. University Hospital Southampton
307. University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
308. University Hospitals Bristol and Weston Foundation Trust
309. University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
310. University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
311. University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
312. University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
313. University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
314. Vanguard Healthcare Solutions Ltd
315. Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland
316. Vita Health Group
317. Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
318. Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
319. West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
320. West London NHS Trust
321. West Midlands Ambulance Service University NHS Foundation Trust
322. Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
323. Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
324. Wolstanton Medical Centre
325. Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
326. Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
327. Wye Valley NHS Trust
328. York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
329. Yorkshire Ambulance Service