NHS organisations including the Primary Care Training Hub are actively celebrating LGBT+ Pride Month in June. This is a time to celebrate and support the LGBTQ+ community with the focus on increasing visibility, promoting inclusivity, and celebrating the diverse experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals within the NHS. Please see attached and below, a range of events and resources:
NHS England LGBTQIA+ Network – Pride Flipbook (also attached).
Pride Month Events:
- 17 June 2025, 2pm-3pm. Pride Event with Dr Michael Brady, National Advisor for LGBT Health. Dr Brady will discuss:
- The importance of Pride – now more than ever.
- Challenges for the LGBTQIA+ workforce in current times.
- Strategies to address LGBTQIA+ health inequalities and making the workplace more inclusive.
- 18 June 2025, 1:30pm-3pm.LGBT+ Inclusion: Definitions, minorities, minorities within minorities.
- Join the NHS England South East Staff Experience and Equality, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI) team for an EDI Skill Development Session. We will explore the different terms we use and less visible groups in LGBT+ communities. We will discuss research evidence, experiences of LGBT+ people in the NHS and how we can create more inclusive experiences for them. There will also be a quiz to test your learning!
- 24 June, 1pm-2pm.Leadership Lunch and Learn with Ian Green OBE, Chair of Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust.
- This session will provide an important platform to hear from senior leaders about their lived experiences, including any challenges they have faced and how they successfully navigated them.
- 26 June, 10am-11am. Pride in Stillness: A meditation session for LGBTQIA+ colleagues.
- Alan is a yoga and meditation teacher, who works a day job as an Innovation Lead in the NHS England Transformation Directorate. He initially took up yoga in 1999, and found it a wonderful way to help manage autism-related anxiety. This led him to training as a teacher in 2005, and he has been teaching part-time since then, including running a weekly meditation group in NHSE for the last few years.
Pride Season 2025 – NHS Employers
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Supporting your LGBTQ+ workforce | NHS Employers
What employers need to know about Pride Month
What is Pride Month? Everything you need to know – Inclusive Employers Pride Month is a time for workplaces to show allyship to the LGBTQ+ community. Click here for ideas on how your organisation can take part. www.inclusiveemployers.co.uk
How to celebrate Pride Month in the workplace