Health and Care Women Leaders Network

A strong, united and influential voice for women, embracing the multiple and intersectional identities that the word woman speaks to.
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Delivered by the NHS Confederation, the Health and Care Women Leaders Network is a free network for all women working across health and care.
 
We connect through events, masterclasses, tweet chats and campaigns, and share learning through podcasts, blogs, videos and key reports.
 
Join us to celebrate our skills and talents, connect with colleagues and challenge gender stereotypes in the workplace.

  • Membership of the Health and Care Women Leaders Network is open to all women working across health and care. If you are a woman, or identify as a woman, and you work in health and care, yes this is absolutely a network for you.

  • The network welcomes the support of allies with a shared commitment to gender equality and the wider equality, diversity and inclusion agenda. If you would like to find out more about how you can support our network, email the team.
     
    Listen to our chair Samantha Allen talk about the value of staff networks both nationally and locally and how to join our network in the short film below.

International Women's Day 2023

Join us on International Women’s Day 2023 to celebrate and highlight work underway to progress gender equality and make a positive difference for women working in health and care. 

With a focus on the theme of #EmbraceEquity, we will start the day with an early morning Tweet chat at 7.30 – 8.30am, followed by a virtual event from 10:00am - 12:00pm. Book your free place.

Listen to the latest podcast in the Health on the Line series; recorded for International Women’s Day Miriam González Durántez talks to Matthew Taylor about equal opportunities, diversity on boards and the economics of care. She also shares two simple ways to effect change, how leaders can move beyond lip service to equity, and why she hopes her viral #ThisLittleGirlIsMe campaign will make a lasting difference.

Interested in membership?

Join us to celebrate skills and talents, connect with colleagues and challenge gender stereotypes in the workplace.

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Equality, diversity and inclusion

Our equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) programme supports members to improve EDI accountability and leadership, tackling inequality through our EDI networks and partnerships.

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