5 June 2020

We’re on a journey together. Now is the time to stand up and be proud.

2020 has been a difficult year and it’s more important than ever that we come together to celebrate you, our staff, our diversity and our values as an organisation – Compassion. Respect. Partnership. Empowerment.

We’re inviting staff, their partners and everyone else in their household to join us on 26 June 2020 to celebrate from 5pm to 7pm (what would have been London Pride). We’ll have music and dancing and a different host at each stop of the virtual route. Follow #CNWLVirtualPride for the programme and updates.

Details: 

https://zoom.us/j/98170693246

Meeting ID: 9817 0693 246

Make your own Pride flag and get dressed up

We will have a series of guests lined up on our ‘main stage’ and we will have a CNWL Pride playlist to follow on Spotify. Soon you will be able to download our roadmap

We’ll have prizes to give away too for

  • Best pride flag
  • Best pride costume
  • Best lock down hair cut
  • Best pride inspired zoom background
  • Best pride inspired cocktail and mocktail

In the run up, we want to gather your desert island discs – what music would you like to hear at the event? We’ll be making a collaborative playlist

We’re also asking for staff to come forward who may want to co-host a section of the route or if you know a musician, comedian, drag or any other act you would like to put forward for the main stage. We have some great acts already lined up but would like to hear from  you too.  Contact us at lgbt.cnwl@nhs.net

Why does the NHS celebrate Pride?

Significant progress has been made towards LGBT+ equality. However, research and survey evidence demonstrates that:​

  • LGBT+ people face considerable barriers to leading happy, healthy, and fulfilling lives​
  • LGBT+ people face discrimination, bullying, and harassment in education, at work in the media and on the streets​
  • LGBT+ people face greater inequalities in health satisfaction, access, experience and outcomes​

Research by GLADD (The Association of LGBT Doctors and Dentists) and British Medical Association in 2016 found that 70% of LGBT+ doctors and medical students reported being treated unfairly because of their sexual orientation or gender identity, and more than one in ten LGBT+ doctors and medical students reported having negative assumptions made about them based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. ​Analysis of the NHS Staff Survey (2018) also highlights a higher proportion of LGBT+ staff having personally experienced bullying, harassment or abuse at work in the last 12 months in comparison to heterosexual colleagues.

To get involved in the lead up to NHS Virtual Pride please follow @CNWLNHS, and use the hashtag #CNWLVirtualPride

For more information visit the Pride in London website and watch the video below.