Speak Up Week 2025
Learn how to get involved in Speak Up Week for the NHS this October.
This week (13-17 October 2025), the National Guardian’s Office launches its Freedom To Speak Up Week campaign across healthcare organisations.
Following on from last year's theme 'listen up', this year the national campaign will focus on follow up in action. Highlighting how managers can turn listening into meaningful and lasting change by acting on what they have heard.
The NHS People Promise calls for all NHS staff to have a voice that counts, where everyone feels safe to speak up and is listened to. Ensuring concerns are responded to and followed up will help drive continuous improvement and build a psychologically safe culture where staff have confidence that their voice will be heard and acted upon.
Get involved
The Freedom to Speak Up Guardians encourage everyone to:
- complete the Freedom to Speak Up, Follow Up e-learning tool
- make a speak up pledge, highlighting follow up in action
- follow the national campaign on LinkedIn where the National Guardian’s Office will be posting a top tip each day, and share your organisation’s Speak Up Week activities using the hashtags #FollowUp #FreedomToSpeakUp.
Resources to help you support freedom to speak up
- Raising concerns - guidance for managers
- Raising concerns - employer actions
- Top tips on how to embed a health speaking up culture.
- Top tips for supporting the psychological safety of staff
- NHS staff wellbeing needs poster highlighting basic needs to feel healthy at work
