Blogs

This week’s leadership message is from Carrie Rae, Children, Young People and Families Senior Programme Manager, NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB). We also have a blog from Charlotte Watkinson, Therapy Clinical Lead for Patient Flow at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust and Mark Jones, Service Manager for Operation Services within Adult Social Care at City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council.

This week’s leadership message comes from Shelley Russell, Programme Manager for Neurodiversity and Learning Disabilities. For World Stroke Day (29 October), we have a blog from Matt Spencer, the Integrated Stroke Delivery Network (ISDN) Manager for the West Yorkshire and Harrogate region, and our final blog this week is an update and news of a new opportunity at West Yorkshire Long Covid services from Becca Spavin, Programme Director for the West Yorkshire Community Health Services Providers Collaborative, and colleagues.

In this blog, Scott Crosby, Associate Director, Centre for Excellence in Tobacco Control, Kaye Mann West Yorkshire Tobacco Control Lead and Sarah Hepworth, South Yorkshire Tobacco Control Lead describe how the three integrated care boards and 15 local authorities are working together to build a smoke-free future across Yorkshire and the Humber.

To mark Stoptober, this week’s leadership message is from Scott Crosby, Associate Director, Centre for Excellence in Tobacco Control, Kaye Mann, West Yorkshire Tobacco Control Lead and Sarah Hepworth, South Yorkshire Tobacco Control Lead. They describe how the three integrated care boards and 15 local authorities are working together to build a smoke-free future across Yorkshire and the Humber. October is also Freedom to Speak Up Month. This week's blog comes from Natalie Wong, People Promise Manager for our Partnership’s Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Autism Programme, and Jock Crawford, Freedom to Speak Up Guardian for NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board.

This week’s leadership message comes from Mel Brown, Director System Reform & Integration, Wakefield District Health and Care Partnership, NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board. To mark Baby Loss Awareness Week (9-15 October), we also have a blog from Nicola Phillis, Senior Programme Manager for NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board.