Equity Charter

Join the digital health Equity Charter Community of Practice Please join us for a day of networking, sharing knowledge, and learning from each other at our Community of Practice participant-led event.

Have you heard? We're holding our inaugural #EquityCharter conference on Monday 10th Nov in London to launch our brand new Community of Practice!

If you want to help us shape the CoP and you want to actively promote #DigitalHealth equity, sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/join-the-d...

Equity Charter formally launched at Rewired 2025 The Equity Charter was formally launched at Rewired 2025 last week, sharing 10 principles to tackle discrimination in the sector.

www.digitalhealth.net/2025/03/equi...

What a blast #Rewired25! Launched the charter, ran workshop on embedding equity, met +++ enthusiastic conference attendees. Now what? Look on the website soon for slides to share w/ colleagues at your team meeting & then send us your success stories. Maybe see you at #Rewired26 to share the impact?

We love the smell of equity in the morning 🤣. Come see us at stand L63 at the back of the hall near the food! You can win the chance of securing a Fortnum & Mason hamper courtesy of @ethicalhealthcare.bsky.social 😍 and find out how you can embed equity in your organisation

The @equitycharter.bsky.social launches at #Rewired25! 🚀

The movement towards equity and fairness in digital health takes a major step today with Ayesha Rahim, Hassan Chaudhury and Victoria Betton launching the charter with ten founding principles

And we are here at #Rewired25! Come see us at stand L63 at the back near the food 😀

@hassanchaudhury.bsky.social @ethicalhealthcare.bsky.social @carolynbarkin.bsky.social @liajali.bsky.social @thekingsfund.bsky.social @nhsproviders.bsky.social @digitalhealth2.bsky.social

📢Just one day to go before we launch the full Equity Charter at @dhrewired.bsky.social! Come see us on the Digital Transformation stage at 1:30pm on Tuesday, or come to our stand to say hello - we'll be there for the whole conference. Let us know below if you'll be there! 👋

Great presentation this afternoon for Digital Clinical Informatics group from Ayesha Rahim creating @equitycharter.bsky.social off the back of an awful event and making a positive movement from it

Thank you so much from your kind words! We believe in positive change and the power of community to help build a movement 💪🏾

We are delighted to have NHS Providers as a strategic partner, supporting us in championing equity in the digital sector! ⭐💪🏾💙

But the Charter isn't an end in itself. We do this because if we in our sector do not embed equity in our work, we will not develop digital products, platforms or services that work for the diverse community we serve. Once we launch, that's when the real work begins for us all. Will you join us? 7/7

Now, we are thrilled to announce that we will be launching the Charter, with our overarching partners NHS Providers, TechUK & Digital Health at the Rewired 2025 conference, 1yr after the news first broke. As well as the principles, you will find tangible actions that YOU can take to embed equity 6/7

The outputs of the Summit were 10 principles which form the backbone of this Charter. We then published the draft principles publicly for feedback. We got loads! Turns out we're not the only ones in the sector who care about equity in digital health 😊 We then amended & improved the principles. 5/7

In July '24 we held the Equity Charter Summit hosted by the King's Fund, inviting a small group of experts to help us develop the actual Charter. Attendees included experts from the world of digital, EDI, procurement & legal. We even received a written statement of support from Diane Abbott MP 4/7

The open letter was made public on day 2 of Rewired conference in March '24. We asked individuals & organisations to sign the letter, & soon amassed over 1000 signatures. This included prominent tech companies, professional bodies, and NHS organisations. This gave us a mandate for stage two... 3/7

So we wrote an open letter on behalf of the entire digital health community repudiating the remarks, & calling for the creation of a digital "equity charter" to set out standards of behaviour for ourselves and others. We wanted to make it clear that this behaviour had no place in our sector. 2/7

👋🏾Hi! Allow us to introduce ourselves. We're a grassroots organisation founded by Ayesha Rahim, Victoria Betton & Hassan Chaudhury in March 2024, when racist & exist comments were made by a prominent software company owner against Diane Abbott. Appalled, we wanted to take a stand against bigotry 1/7