KHUSH™
The workplace health programme built for South Asian men and women.
You have committed to race equality. Here is the health action. Talks, line manager training, policy review and an employer mark, with a South Asian doctor and someone who has lived it in every room. Built for inclusion, retention, lower sickness absence, and reasonable adjustments that work.
Delivered and awarded by HHEI, an independent Community Interest Company. Education only: no clinical service, and no commercial interest in any provider.
What you can book
Four themes, six talks, any month.
Every talk is ninety minutes and £1,500, and includes a 30-day recording for internal replay. A 12-month internal licence is £750. A South Asian doctor plus someone who has lived it. Confidence measured before and after, with a one-page report for the board. Nothing is tied to an awareness week. Delivered online by default. On site by agreement, with travel charged at cost.
Heart and metabolic health
Why the numbers are different
Heart, diabetes and weight at South Asian thresholds. The starter talk most organisations choose first.
Mind
Mental health: speaking up
Stigma, family and disclosure in South Asian workplaces.
Women's hormonal health
Fertility and work
What treatment involves, and why it collides with the working week.
Menopause
Earlier on average, with different symptoms, and rarely discussed in South Asian women. Can be included as a menopause action in a Equality Action Plan.
PCOS and periods
More common, earlier, and at a lower weight in South Asian women. Insulin, skin, hair, fertility, and the workplace.
Men's health
Men's health
Testosterone, diabetes and the heart in South Asian men. The body first.
Line managers, half day
Managing South Asian health at work
£3,500
Led by a South Asian doctor qualified in occupational medicine, with someone who has lived it. The health picture in thirty minutes, the conversation, the adjustments that work, what your policy says and what it misses, and three scenarios worked live. Managers leave with a script and a checklist.
What it helps you evidence
- Reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act, including the EHRC's 2024 guidance on menopause
- Line manager training that is recent, relevant and recorded
- A confidence score for managers, measured before and after
- A written policy review for the board
Written work
Policy review
From £3,500
Your policies reviewed against the KHUSH criteria, with a written report for the board. One of the four things Accredited requires.
Also on the full menu at Appy + Yaar: any talk with a thirty-minute manager add-on, sponsored community sessions for ESG budgets, the four free guides, and, from January 2027, Workplace Champions and online courses.
£6,000
The Year
Four talks, one per theme, across twelve months. The 12-month recording licence and one manager add-on are included. The year plan most Members choose.
£1,500, or £3,000 with the Menopause talk
Equality Action Plan evidence pack
The menopause action written up for your plan: what was delivered, the confidence numbers, a manager toolkit and a board paragraph. Mandatory plans arrive in spring 2027.
Who is in the room
One rule, every session.
A South Asian doctor, and someone who has lived it. Manager sessions are led by a South Asian doctor qualified in occupational medicine. KHUSH is delivered through HHEI's Expert Panel. These are the people in the room.
Dr Divpreet Sacha
GP with a special interest in occupational medicine (DOccMed). Founding Director. Author of the iOH occupational health toolkit on supporting employees through fertility treatment. Lives with PCOS, been through IVF.
Dr Nadia Masood
Anaesthetist by training, qualified in occupational medicine (AFOM). Founding Director. Clinical expert in generative AI evaluation at Elsevier.
Dr Kurren Sandhu
GP, lifestyle medicine. Founder of The Vital Room. Corporate wellbeing sessions for FTSE 100 companies.
Dr Farah Ahmed
GP and British Menopause Society-accredited menopause specialist. Runs an NHS menopause clinic in Hillingdon. Trustee of Cysters.
Dr Simran Ramewal
Psychiatry doctor in higher specialty training, MRCPsych. Published in BJPsych Bulletin.
Anita Guru
Founder of The Mind Coach. A background in occupational psychology and nearly twenty years in learning and organisational development with organisations including Deloitte, Centrica and Coca-Cola. Trustee of the mental health charity My Black Dog. Lives with endometriosis, been through IVF.
Working with HHEI
Hormonal Health Equity Initiative CIC, Companies House 17166971, asset-locked. Public liability insured. Every doctor on the panel is GMC-registered. ICO registered, ZB841609. Education only: no clinical service, no patient data. Panel members hold NHS and private roles; HHEI recommends no provider and takes no referral income. Several panel members also appear as Clinical Champions and Community Voices on Appy + Yaar, the South Asian health education platform where employees can send the KHUSH brief to their HR team.
Join, then earn
Three rungs. One mark.
Free
Committed to KHUSH
A public listing as a committed organisation. A one-page workforce checklist, a manager conversation guide, a five-question staff pulse survey that gives you your own number, and the four free guides.
Annual membership
KHUSH Member
The Member mark. An annual South Asian staff confidence survey with a one-page board report, benchmarked as the Member base grows. Wording you can use in your WRES action plan, ethnicity pay gap action plan, ESG report and Race at Work update. Ask the panel, a shared monthly session for Members. One executive briefing a year. A free seat for your South Asian or BAME staff network. Employers: Year One includes one talk.
Assessed
KHUSH Accredited Employer
One mark, earned once, kept by staying a Member and re-running the survey each year. The Member fee halves once it is earned.
Employers
No VAT is charged; HHEI is not VAT registered. Member Year One includes one talk. Foundation is the manager workshop, one talk, a Member year and the assessment: the fastest route to Accredited.
- Member, under 350 staff
- £2,500 a year
- Member, 351 to 1,000 staff
- £4,500 a year
- Member, 1,001 staff and above
- £7,500 a year
- Foundation package, under 350 staff
- £8,500
- Foundation package, 351 to 1,000 staff
- £10,500
- Foundation package, 1,001 staff and above
- £13,500
Partnership and Embedded packages, and the Accredited assessment on its own, are scoped on request.
What Accredited requires
- 1.Manager workshop delivered
- 2.At least one talk delivered to the workforce
- 3.Policy reviewed against the KHUSH criteria
- 4.Staff confidence survey run, and the number reported
An employer mark awarded by HHEI CIC. It is not clinical CPD accreditation. Earned however the four are completed, as a package or one at a time. Charities and community organisations join as KHUSH Community Partners at no fee.
The case for the board
You have committed to race equality. Here is the health action.
Race at Work signatories commit to publicising their progress. NHS organisations report against the Workforce Race Equality Standard every year. Every public body publishes equality objectives under the Public Sector Equality Duty and reports on them. Large employers will report ethnicity pay gaps. KHUSH gives each of them a health action they can name, a number they can report, and a mark they can show.
If you bid for central government or NHS contracts, social value carries a minimum weighting of ten percent, and the NHS names reducing health inequalities as a priority. KHUSH is social value you can evidence.
NHS, health inequalities and communities
Three more doors.
NHS as employer
Health for the largest minority group in your workforce. A named action for your WRES action plan, the EDI Improvement Plan and the equality objectives you publish under the Public Sector Equality Duty, with a staff confidence number you can set beside your Staff Survey results.
- Member, under 350 staff
- £1,500 a year
- Member, 351 to 1,000 staff
- £2,500 a year
- Member, 1,001 staff and above
- £4,000 a year
Public sector rate. Talks and the manager workshop at the published prices.
Commissioners and ICBs
Core20PLUS5 evidence for South Asian populations, from clinicians who are South Asian: the hypertension case-finding clinical area, and the PLUS groups, which include ethnic minority communities. Pathway audits, prevention education for integrated neighbourhood teams, evaluation built in, and a named clinical voice on retainer.
Scoped on request. See the NHS page.
Clinicians and communities
Thresholds that fit the patient in front of you. A clinical education day for primary care and Training Hubs, contributed into accredited frameworks held by partner bodies. Online courses from January 2027.
Community work is grant-led and never sold. Charities join as Community Partners. Community and VCSE partnerships.
Start with a call, or start with a talk.
A thirty-minute call scopes your workforce, your existing OH and EAP arrangements, and the commitment you are reporting against. Or commission one talk and see the room.
Questions
KHUSH: frequently asked
KHUSH is a workplace health programme built for South Asian men and women. It covers heart and metabolic health, mental health, women's hormonal health and men's health through talks, line manager training, policy review and an employer mark, all delivered by South Asian clinicians alongside people with lived experience. It is delivered and awarded by HHEI, an independent Community Interest Company.