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:
- We will actively work to eradicate sexual harassment and abuse in the workplace.
- We will promote a culture that fosters openness and transparency, and does not tolerate unwanted, harmful and/or inappropriate sexual behaviours.
- 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.
- We will provide appropriate support for those in our workforce who experience unwanted, inappropriate and/or harmful sexual behaviours.
- We will clearly communicate standards of behaviour. This includes expected action for those who witness inappropriate, unwanted and/or harmful sexual behaviour.
- We will ensure appropriate, specific, and clear policies are in place. They will include appropriate and timely action against alleged perpetrators.
- We will ensure appropriate, specific, and clear training is in place.
- We will ensure appropriate reporting mechanisms are in place for those experiencing these behaviours.
- We will take all reports seriously and appropriate and timely action will be taken in all cases.
- 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
- 18 Week Support
- Absolute Care Homes (Central) Limited
- Active Care Group
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
- Alliance Medical Ltd
- Allied Health Professionals and Social Work Professionals
- Allied Health Professionals Suffolk, Community Interest Company
- Allied Health Professions
- Ambulance Transfers Ltd
- Arthur Rank Hospice Charity
- Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Association of Ambulance Chief Executives
- Association of Anaesthetists
- Association of Breast Surgery
- Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland
- Aurora Medcare
- Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
- Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Barts Health NHS Trust
- Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board
- Benenden Hospital
- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Trust
- Black Country Health Care Foundation Trust
- Black Country Integrated Care Board
- Blackpool Teaching Hospitals
- Bolton NHS foundation Trust
- Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Bridgewater Community Healthcare
- BrisDoc Healthcare Services Ltd
- Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board
- British and Irish Orthoptic Society
- British Association of Dental Nurses (BADN)
- British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
- British Cardiovascular Society
- British Dietetic Association
- British Medical Association
- British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society (BOMSS)
- British Orthopaedic Association
- British Society of Gastroenterology
- Bromley Healthcare CIC
- Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
- Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board
- Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Integrated Care Board
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
- Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
- Care and Custody Police Services
- Cavell
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Central Medical Services Ltd
- Central North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- CHEC
- Chelsea and Westminster Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Circle Health Group
- City Health Care Partnership
- Cleveland Clinic London
- College of Operating Department Practitioners
- College of Paramedics
- Community Hosting and Support
- Compleo Health Limited
- Connect Health
- Cornwall Foundation Trust
- Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Countess of Chester NHS Foundation Trust
- County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
- Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board
- Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
- Croydon Health Services
- CSH
- Cumbria Health Ltd.
- Cumbria, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
- Cygnet Health Care
- Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
- Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Trust
- Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Devon Partnership NHS Trust
- DHU Healthcare
- Diagnostic Healthcare Ltd
- Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Dorset Healthcare University NHS Trust
- Dudley Integrated Health and Care NHS Trust
- East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
- East Berkshire Primary Care
- East Cheshire NHS Trust
- East Kent Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust
- East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust
- East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
- East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
- Elysium Healthcare
- Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Foundation Trust
- Epsomedical
- Essex Partnership University Hospital NHS Trust
- Everyturn Mental Health
- Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine – Member of Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
- Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management
- Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds
- First Community Health and Care
- Fortius Clinic
- Frimley Heath NHS Foundation Trust
- Frimley Integrated Care Board
- Gateshead NHS Foundation Trust
- Genesis Care
- George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
- Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Gloucestershire Hospitals
- Gloucestershire Managed Services
- Great Ormond Street Hospital
- Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
- GTD Healthcare
- Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust
- Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Hardcore Medical and Ambulance Services
- Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust
- HCA Healthcare
- Head of Workforce Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- Health Services Safety Investigations Body
- Health Transportation Group UK Limited
- Healthcare Management Trust
- HealthShare Group
- Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust
- Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Trust
- HomeLink Healthcare
- Homerton Healthcare
- Horder Healthcare
- Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Hull University Teaching Hospitals
- Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Independent Health Group
- Independent Healthcare Providers Network
- InHealth Group
- Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine
- Integrated Care 24
- Iris Care Group
- Isle of White NHS Trust
- James Paget University Hospital
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- KIMS Hospital
- King Edward VII’s Hospital
- King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board
- Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
- Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Leeds Community Healthcare
- Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board
- Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
- Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
- Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust
- Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital
- Liverpool University Hospitals
- Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust
- Livewell Southwest
- LivingCare Group
- Locala Health and Wellbeing
- London Ambulance Service NHS Trust
- London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
- Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
- Mayford House Surgery
- Medneo Diagnostics UK Limited
- Medway Community Healthcare
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust
- Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
- Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust
- Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit
- Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Moorfields Eye Hospital
- MSI Reproductive Choices UK
- Navigo Health and Social Care CiC
- NES Healthcare UK
- New Victoria Hospital
- Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Newmedica
- NHS Arden and GEM Commissioning Support Unit
- NHS Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Care Board
- NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board
- NHS Cheshire and Mersyside
- NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board
- NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board
- NHS Devon Integrated Care Board
- NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board
- NHS Employers
- NHS England
- NHS Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board
- NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board
- NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board
- NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire Integrated Care Board
- NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board
- NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
- NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board
- NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board
- NHS Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board
- NHS North Central London Integrated Care Board
- NHS North East London Integrated Care Board
- NHS North West London Integrated Care Board
- NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board
- NHS Professionals
- NHS Somerset Integrated Care Board
- NHS South East London Integrated Care Board
- NHS South West London Integrated Care Board
- NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit
- NHS Sussex Integrated Care Board
- NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
- Nimbuscare
- Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board
- Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust
- North Bristol NHS Trust
- North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
- North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
- North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board
- North East London NHS Foundation Trust
- North London Mental Health Partnership
- North Middlesex University Trust
- North of England Commissioning Support Unit
- North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
- North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
- North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust
- North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
- Northampton General Hospital
- Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Northenden Group Practice
- Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
- Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust
- Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board
- Nottingham CityCare Partnership CIC
- Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Nuffield Health
- One Medical group
- OneMedical Property
- Operose Health
- OSD Healthcare
- Oxford Health Foundation Trust
- Oxford University Hospitals
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Parkview Medical Centre
- Pathfinder Group
- Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Phoenix Hospital Group
- PHL Group Ltd
- Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
- Practice Plus Group
- Primary Eyecare Services Limited
- Queen Elizabeth Hospital
- Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Ramsay Health Care UK
- Richard House Children’s Hospice
- Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust
- Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
- Royal College of Anaesthetists
- Royal College of Emergency Medicine
- Royal College of General Practitioners
- Royal College of Nursing
- Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Royal College of Ophthalmologists
- Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
- Royal College of Physicians
- Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
- Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
- Royal College of Podiatry
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Royal College of Radiologists
- Royal College of Surgeons of England
- Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust
- Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
- Royal Papworth Hospital
- Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
- Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
- Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
- Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
- Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
- Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
- Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Shoen Clinic
- Shropshire Community Health Trust
- Shropshire, Telford, and Wrekin Integrated Care Board
- Sirona care and health
- Sodexo Health and Care
- Solent NHS Trust
- Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
- South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
- South East Coast Ambulance NHS Foundation Trust
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- South Tees Hospitals NHs Foundation Trust
- South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
- South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust
- South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust
- South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- South Western Ambulance Service Foundation Trust
- South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
- Southampton Medical School
- Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Southwest London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust
- Spencer Private Hospitals Limited
- Spire Healthcare Limited
- Springhill Hospice
- St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- St Oswald’s Hospice
- Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board
- Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse (STADA)
- Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
- Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board
- Sulis Hospital Bath
- Surrey and Borders Partnership Trust
- Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
- Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care Board
- Survivors In Transition
- SurvivorsUK
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
- Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Tees Esk and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
- The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
- The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
- The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust
- The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust
- The Faculty of Public Health
- The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- The Local Primary Care Federation
- The London Clinic
- The New Foscote Hospital
- The Princess Alexandra NHS Trust
- The Private Clinic
- The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust
- The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
- The Rotherham Foundation NHS Trust
- The Royal College of Emergency Medicine
- The Royal College of Pathologists
- The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
- The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
- The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
- The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
- The Society of Radiographers
- The Springs Medical Practice
- The Survivors Trust
- The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
- The University of Manchester (Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health)
- The University of Sheffield (Faculty of Health)
- The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust
- Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
- Totally Group PLC
- Tower Hamlets GP Care Group Community Interest Company
- Transform Healthcare
- UNISON Health Group
- United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
- University College Hospitals London
- University Hospital Dorset
- University Hospital Plymouth NHS Trust
- University Hospital Southampton
- University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
- University Hospitals Bristol and Weston Foundation Trust
- University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
- University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
- University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
- University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust
- University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
- University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
- University of Glasgow
- University of Suffolk Dental CIC
- Vanguard Healthcare Solutions Ltd
- Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland
- Viaduct Care CIC
- Vida Sheffield
- Vita Health Group
- Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
- Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick
- We Are Survivors
- We Stand
- Welbeck Health Partners and Welbeck Group
- West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- West London NHS Trust
- West Midlands Ambulance Service University NHS Foundation Trust
- West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Whittington Health NHS Trust
- Wiltshire Health and Care
- Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Wolstanton Medical Centre
- Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
- Working Party on Sexual Misconduct in Surgery
- Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Wye Valley NHS Trust
- York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Yorkshire Ambulance Service
- Your Medical Services