Equity Charter Podcast

In this final episode of the series we’re exploring the Equity Charter’s Community of Practice. Our experts this week are our two facilitators for the community - Emily Burch , an NHS Chief Nursing Information Officer and  Gurnak Singh Dosanjh , GP and Chief Clinical Information Officer. In the episode we’ll hear about the evidence for Communities of Practice, what it takes to translate words into...

This is the final deep dive into our principles, focusing on principle 10 and the whole mission of the Equity Charter - “Equitable health and wellbeing outcomes for underserved communities”. We are joined by Rachel Power , CEO of The Patients Association , and Professor Partha Kar , Type I Diabetes and Technology Lead at NHS England. In this conversation you’ll hear about the danger of assuming th...

Welcome to this week’s episode of the podcast, where we examine not just the pitfalls but also the potential of data in the realm of health equity. Our experts this week are Maxine Mackintosh - data guru and Co-Director of  One HealthTech and leading light  Rony Arafin ,  Director of Insights at the British Heart Foundation , Deputy Chair of the NHS Chief Data & Analytics Officers Network and...

This week we are delighted to have not two, but three experts to join me on this exploration of the world of procurement and contracting. You will hear Patrick Vernon , Pro-Chancellor for Health at the University of Wolverhampton, and former ICB chair at Birmingham and Solihull talking about a radical new equity-informed approach to contracting in the NHS. Keith Smith , Public Sector Strategy and...

In this episode we’ll be exploring the 7th principle of the Equity Charter: “Digital products and services are designed equitably”. Here to help us delve into the fascinating world are Lia Ali , doctor, digital strategist, and design advocate along with Pete Nuckley , Head of User-Centred Design at NHS England. We’ll hear about the importance of differentiating between design wants and design need...

For this week’s episode we are looking at how equity and inequity manifest in the world of innovation and research.  Our guest experts are MaryAnn Ferreux , Chief Medical Officer at Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex, and Jess Morley , Associate Research Fellow at the Yale Digital Ethics Centre. Our conversation take us through some thought-provoking insights on the concept of “minimal viable da...

In this week’s episode we are joined by Natasha Phillips , founder of Future Nurse and former Chief Nursing Information Officer at NHS England, and  Shera Chok , Co-Founder of the Shuri Network and GP.  They take us through their perspectives on recruiting and supporting a diverse workforce, and the benefits this brings in designing products and services that meet the needs of a diverse society. ...

This week we’ll be doing a deep dive into how and why equity should be embedded into strategy.  You’ll hear from Hatim Abdulhussein , CEO of Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex who talks about the various areas where a strategic ethos can manifest such as innovation and procurement. Joan Saddler, Director of Partnerships and Equality, and Co-Chair of the Equality and Diversity Council at the NHS...

For this episode, we’ll be taking a closer look at equity through a policy lens. With us to navigate this topic is Marie Gabriel DBE - Chair of North East London ICB and Chair of the Race and Health Observatory and Pritesh Mistry , Digital Technologies Fellow at the King’s Fund. The following resources and documents are mentioned in the show: Digital Inclusion Framework Designing Inclusive Digital...

In a break from our usual schedule, this week we have a bonus special episode that was recorded at the Digital Health Rewired conference in March 2026. In this episode, co-founder Victoria Betton interviews 3 guests who appeared on the Equity Charter conference panel telling us all about how they’ve embedded equity within their organisations. You’ll hear from Annie Chamberlain , Head of Service De...

In this episode we’ll be examining how leaders can embed equity into their work. Our special guests this week are Monique Carayol , Leadership Coach and founder of Bravery in the Boardroom , and Andy Callow , NHS Chief Digital and Transformation Officer at Nottingham University Hospitals. Check out the Bravery in the Boardroom podcast here , and you can read Andy’s blog here , where you can also s...

In this episode we kick off our deep dive into the 10 principles of the Equity Charter. This principle in many ways is the most important and impactful one in terms of effecting lasting change: our own individual responsibility to actively champion equity. Whilst the episode doesn’t focus on the digital health sector specifically, it takes us through the foundations for change that are universal....

Welcome to the introductory episode of the Equity Charter podcast. The Equity Charter is a social movement to promote equity within the digital health sector in order to narrow the health inequality gap. Our Charter consists of 10 principles and some accompanying actions,  for any individuals or organisations working in this space to make tangible change. In this series we will be doing a deep div...