Guidance

Diversity Charter

How NHS leaders and senior communicators can develop a diverse communications and engagement profession, supported by strong allyship and advocacy.

31 July 2025

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Tackling racial inequality in NHS communications requires bold, focused and collective action.

We have developed a charter with achievable and measurable actions that can support our aim of developing a diverse communications and engagement profession for the NHS, supported by strong allyship and advocacy. 

Our charter has been developed with the ambition of making it relevant to as wide a group as possible. This includes NHS communications professionals, as well as chief executives and other senior leaders.

This charter has been published by NHS Communicate, a partnership between the NHS Confederation, NHS Providers and the Centre for Health Communications Research.