Every year in October, healthcare organisations celebrate Speak Up Month – a month to raise awareness of Freedom to Speak Up and make speaking up business as usual for everyone. 

The theme for Speak Up Month 2023 is “Breaking Barriers". This year, the campaign highlights the barriers to speaking up, and giving people the confidence to overcome these barriers and make speaking up business as usual.

Deputy Medical Director and Freedom to Speak Up Ambassador, Neeraj Bhasin, said: “Whatever your concern may be, it is so important you feel you can and do raise any issues to improve things for our patients, their families, and our colleagues.

“There are many routes to raising concerns, such as talking to your manager or someone else you feel comfortable highlighting issues to.

“The Freedom to Speak Up ambassadors remain a really vital part of those options and are available to respond to the concerns you may have, and I know being a FTSU ambassador remains an important part of my role.

You can read more about Freedom to Speak Up on the intranet or on the Working For Us page of CHFT’s website.