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. Active Care Group
4. Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
5. Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
6. Alliance Medical Ltd
7. Allied Health Professionals and Social Work Professionals
8. Allied Health Professionals Suffolk, Community Interest Company
9. Allied Health Professions
10. Ambulance Transfers Ltd
11. Arthur Rank Hospice Charity
12. Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
13. Association of Ambulance Chief Executives
14. Association of Anaesthetists
15. Association of Breast Surgery
16. Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland
17. Aurora Medcare
18. Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
19. Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
20. Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
21. Barts Health NHS Trust
22. Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
23. Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board
24. Benenden Hospital
25. Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
26. Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
27. Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
28. Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Trust
29. Black Country Health Care Foundation Trust
30. Black Country Integrated Care Board
31. Blackpool Teaching Hospitals
32. Bolton NHS foundation Trust
33. Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust
34. Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
35. Bridgewater Community Healthcare
36. BrisDoc Healthcare Services Ltd
37. Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board
38. British and Irish Orthoptic Society
39. British Association of Dental Nurses (BADN)
40. British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
41. British Cardiovascular Society
42. British Dietetic Association
43. British Medical Association
44. British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society (BOMSS)
45. British Orthopaedic Association
46. British Society of Gastroenterology
47. Bromley Healthcare CIC
48. Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
49. Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board
50. Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
51. Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
52. Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Integrated Care Board
53. Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
54. Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
55. Care and Custody Police Services
56. Cavell
57. Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
58. Central Medical Services Ltd
59. Central North West London NHS Foundation Trust
60. CHEC
61. Chelsea and Westminster Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
62. Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
63. Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
64. Circle Health Group
65. City Health Care Partnership
66. Cleveland Clinic London
67. College of Operating Department Practitioners
68. College of Paramedics
69. Community Hosting and Support
70. Compleo Health Limited
71. Connect Health
72. Cornwall Foundation Trust
73. Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
74. Countess of Chester NHS Foundation Trust
75. County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
76. Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board
77. Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
78. Croydon Health Services
79. CSH
80. Cumbria Health Ltd.
81. Cumbria, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
82. Cygnet Health Care
83. Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
84. Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Trust
85. Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
86. Devon Partnership NHS Trust
87. DHU Healthcare
88. Diagnostic Healthcare Ltd
89. Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
90. Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
91. Dorset Healthcare University NHS Trust
92. Dudley Integrated Health and Care NHS Trust
93. East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
94. East Berkshire Primary Care
95. East Cheshire NHS Trust
96. East Kent Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
97. East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
98. East London NHS Foundation Trust
99. East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust
100. East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust
101. East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
102. East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
103. Elysium Healthcare
104. Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Foundation Trust
105. Epsomedical
106. Essex Partnership University Hospital NHS Trust
107. Everyturn Mental Health
108. Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine – Member of Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
109. Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management
110. Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds
111. First Community Health and Care
112. Fortius Clinic
113. Frimley Heath NHS Foundation Trust
114. Frimley Integrated Care Board
115. Gateshead NHS Foundation Trust
116. Genesis Care
117. George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
118. Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
119. Gloucestershire Hospitals
120. Gloucestershire Managed Services
121. Great Ormond Street Hospital
122. Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
123. Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
124. GTD Healthcare
125. Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust
126. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
127. Hardcore Medical and Ambulance Services
128. Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust
129. HCA Healthcare
130. Head of Workforce Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
131. Health Services Safety Investigations Body
132. Health Transportation Group UK Limited
133. Healthcare Management Trust
134. HealthShare Group
135. Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust
136. Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust
137. Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Trust
138. HomeLink Healthcare
139. Homerton Healthcare
140. Horder Healthcare
141. Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust
142. Hull University Teaching Hospitals
143. Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
144. Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
145. Independent Health Group
146. Independent Healthcare Providers Network
147. InHealth Group
148. Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine
149. Integrated Care 24
150. Iris Care Group
151. Isle of White NHS Trust
152. James Paget University Hospital
153. Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
154. Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
155. Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
156. KIMS Hospital
157. King Edward VII’s Hospital
158. King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
159. Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
160. Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board
161. Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
162. Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
163. Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
164. Leeds Community Healthcare
165. Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
166. Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board
167. Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
168. Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
169. Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust
170. Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
171. Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital
172. Liverpool University Hospitals
173. Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust
174. Livewell Southwest
175. LivingCare Group
176. Locala Health and Wellbeing
177. London Ambulance Service NHS Trust
178. London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
179. Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
180. Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
181. Mayford House Surgery
182. Medneo Diagnostics UK Limited
183. Medway Community Healthcare
184. Medway NHS Foundation Trust
185. Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
186. Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
187. Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
188. Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
189. Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust
190. Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit
191. Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
192. Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
193. Moorfields Eye Hospital
194. MSI Reproductive Choices UK
195. Navigo Health and Social Care CiC
196. NES Healthcare UK
197. New Victoria Hospital
198. Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
199. Newmedica
200. NHS Arden and GEM Commissioning Support Unit
201. NHS Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Care Board
202. NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board
203. NHS Cheshire and Mersyside
204. NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board
205. NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board
206. NHS Devon Integrated Care Board
207. NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board
208. NHS Employers
209. NHS England
210. NHS Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board
211. NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board
212. NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board
213. NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire Integrated Care Board
214. NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board
215. NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
216. NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board
217. NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board
218. NHS Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board
219. NHS North Central London Integrated Care Board
220. NHS North East London Integrated Care Board
221. NHS North West London Integrated Care Board
222. NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board
223. NHS Professionals
224. NHS Somerset Integrated Care Board
225. NHS South East London Integrated Care Board
226. NHS South West London Integrated Care Board
227. NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit
228. NHS Sussex Integrated Care Board
229. NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
230. Nimbuscare
231. Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
232. Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
233. Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board
234. Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust
235. North Bristol NHS Trust
236. North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
237. North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
238. North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board
239. North East London NHS Foundation Trust
240. North London Mental Health Partnership
241. North Middlesex University Trust
242. North of England Commissioning Support Unit
243. North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
244. North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
245. North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust
246. North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
247. Northampton General Hospital
248. Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
249. Northenden Group Practice
250. Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
251. Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust
252. Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
253. Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board
254. Nottingham CityCare Partnership CIC
255. Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
256. Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
257. Nuffield Health
258. One Medical group
259. OneMedical Property
260. Operose Health
261. OSD Healthcare
262. Oxford Health Foundation Trust
263. Oxford University Hospitals
264. Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
265. Parkview Medical Centre
266. Pathfinder Group
267. Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
268. Phoenix Hospital Group
269. PHL Group Ltd
270. Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
271. Practice Plus Group
272. Primary Eyecare Services Limited
273. Queen Elizabeth Hospital
274. Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
275. Ramsay Health Care UK
276. Richard House Children’s Hospice
277. Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust
278. Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
279. Royal College of Anaesthetists
280. Royal College of Emergency Medicine
281. Royal College of General Practitioners
282. Royal College of Nursing
283. Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
284. Royal College of Ophthalmologists
285. Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
286. Royal College of Physicians
287. Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
288. Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
289. Royal College of Podiatry
290. Royal College of Psychiatrists
291. Royal College of Radiologists
292. Royal College of Surgeons of England
293. Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust
294. Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
295. Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
296. Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
297. Royal Papworth Hospital
298. Royal Pharmaceutical Society
299. Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
300. Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
301. Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
302. Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
303. Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
304. Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
305. Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
306. Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
307. Shoen Clinic
308. Shropshire Community Health Trust
309. Shropshire, Telford, and Wrekin Integrated Care Board
310. Sirona care and health
311. Sodexo Health and Care
312. Solent NHS Trust
313. Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
314. South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
315. South East Coast Ambulance NHS Foundation Trust
316. South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
317. South Tees Hospitals NHs Foundation Trust
318. South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
319. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust
320. South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust
321. South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
322. South Western Ambulance Service Foundation Trust
323. South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
324. Southampton Medical School
325. Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust
326. Southwest London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust
327. Spencer Private Hospitals Limited
328. Spire Healthcare Limited
329. Springhill Hospice
330. St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
331. St Oswald’s Hospice
332. Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board
333. Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse (STADA)
334. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
335. Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board
336. Sulis Hospital Bath
337. Surrey and Borders Partnership Trust
338. Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
339. Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care Board
340. Survivors In Transition
341. SurvivorsUK
342. Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
343. Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
344. Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
345. Tees Esk and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
346. The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
347. The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
348. The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust
349. The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust
350. The Faculty of Public Health
351. The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
352. The Local Primary Care Federation
353. The London Clinic
354. The New Foscote Hospital
355. The Princess Alexandra NHS Trust
356. The Private Clinic
357. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust
358. The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
359. The Rotherham Foundation NHS Trust
360. The Royal College of Emergency Medicine
361. The Royal College of Pathologists
362. The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
363. The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
364. The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
365. The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
366. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
367. The Society of Radiographers
368. The Springs Medical Practice
369. The Survivors Trust
370. The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
371. The University of Manchester (Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health)
372. The University of Sheffield (Faculty of Health)
373. The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust
374. Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
375. Totally Group PLC
376. Tower Hamlets GP Care Group Community Interest Company
377. Transform Healthcare
378. UNISON Health Group
379. United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
380. University College Hospitals London
381. University Hospital Dorset
382. University Hospital Plymouth NHS Trust
383. University Hospital Southampton
384. University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
385. University Hospitals Bristol and Weston Foundation Trust
386. University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
387. University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
388. University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
389. University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust
390. University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
391. University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
392. University of Glasgow
393. University of Suffolk Dental CIC
394. Vanguard Healthcare Solutions Ltd
395. Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland
396. Viaduct Care CIC
397. Vida Sheffield
398. Vita Health Group
399. Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
400. Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
401. Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick
402. We Are Survivors
403. We Stand
404. Welbeck Health Partners and Welbeck Group
405. West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
406. West London NHS Trust
407. West Midlands Ambulance Service University NHS Foundation Trust
408. West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
409. Whittington Health NHS Trust
410. Wiltshire Health and Care
411. Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
412. Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
413. Wolstanton Medical Centre
414. Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
415. Working Party on Sexual Misconduct in Surgery
416. Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
417. Wye Valley NHS Trust
418. York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
419. Yorkshire Ambulance Service
420. Your Medical Services