UK Health Secretary Steve Barclay has urged NHS organisations to review their diversity and inclusion memberships due to financial pressures and wider societal concerns. In a letter to key national health bodies, including NHS England and the Care Quality Commission, Barclay called on them to assess whether these memberships provided value for money. He recommended organisations take steps to cancel or allow subscriptions to lapse if they were not offering good value. Barclay highlighted that diversity and inclusion should be the responsibility of all team members rather than being delegated to external providers or discrete roles within organisations. Public health services frequently implement diversity and inclusion membership schemes. However, critics worry about the impact of the forced language changes advocated by some inclusion initiatives. A DDU representative, Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, argued that organisations should halt spending on equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) initiatives as they are often divisive and exacerbate sensitivities surrounding skin colour in the workplace. Although diversity and inclusion memberships form a part of HR departments that prevent violations of the Equality Act 2010, there are concerns that EDI initiatives themselves may cause divisions in organisations.