City Health Care Partnership CiC
Source: gov.uk (2025-11-10)

We, the undersigned, commit to honour the Armed Forces Covenant and support the Armed Forces Community. We recognise the value Serving Personnel, both Regular and Reservists, Veterans and military families contribute to our business and our country.

The Armed Forces Covenant

An enduring covenant between the people of the United Kingdom, Her Majesty’s Government and all those who serve or have served in the Armed Forces of the Crown and their families

The first duty of Government is the defence of the realm. Our Armed Forces fulfil that responsibility on behalf of the Government, sacrificing some civilian freedoms, facing danger and, sometimes, suffering serious injury or death as a result of their duty. Families also play a vital role in supporting the operational effectiveness of our Armed Forces. In return, the whole nation has a moral obligation to the members of the Naval Service, the Army and the Royal Air Force, together with their families. They deserve our respect and support, and fair treatment.

Those who serve in the Armed Forces, whether Regular or Reserve, those who have served in the past, and their families, should face no disadvantage compared to other citizens in the provision of public and commercial services. Special consideration is appropriate in some cases, especially for those who have given most such as the injured and the bereaved.

This obligation involves the whole of society: it includes voluntary and charitable bodies, private organisations, and the actions of individuals in supporting the Armed Forces. Recognising those who have performed military duty unites the country and demonstrates the value of their contribution. This has no greater expression than in upholding this Covenant.

Section 1: Principles of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant

1.1 We City Health Care Partnership CiC will endeavour in our business dealings to uphold the key principles of the Armed Forces Covenant, which are:
- no member of the Armed Forces Community should face disadvantage in the provision of public and commercial services compared to any other citizen;
- and in some circumstances that special treatment may be appropriate especially for the injured or bereaved.
Section 2: Demonstrating our commitment

2.1 City Health Care Partnership CiC recognises the value serving personnel, reservists, veterans and military families bring to our business. We will seek to uphold the principles of the Armed Forces Covenant, by pledging to the following:
- Armed Forces Friendly
- UK Service Veterans And Leavers
- UK Service Spouses And Partners
- Flexible Leave For Spouses
- UK Reservists
- UK Cadets
- Armed Forces Day
- Discounts
We also pledge the following:

-Publicising our armed forces covenant on our website, displaying the covenant logo and working in partnership with established veteran support services -CHCP will aim to take positive action regarding recruitment applications that meet the selection criteria laid out in a job advert, and invite to briefing days specifically for those leaving the armed forces as a way to raise awareness of the opportunities for employment in out business -Looking sympathetically on requests for holidays before, during or after a partners overseas deployment when the service person has leave to spend time with their family; by considering whether special paid leave is appropriate for employees who are bereaved or whose loves ones are injured -Allowing reserve to take normal leave, additional unpaid or, where practical, even paid leave -Offering support to local reserve forces and cadet associations where practical, via collaborative working to raise awareness of, and identify, support needs -Becoming an AFD corporate partner and use the logo on bags, posters and websites and fly the armed forces day flag to help the local community veterans identify availability of local support services and partnerships -Offering a discount through the defence discount scheme to members of the armed forces issued with a defence privilege card on prescription charges at CHCP CIC run pharmacists and education and training opportunities through our dedicated learning and development team covering subjects from clinical training, business, IT and administration

2.2 We will publicise these commitments through our literature and/or on our website, setting out how we will seek to honour them and inviting feedback from the Service community and our customers on how we are doing.