The difference our Partnership is making

The national HSJ Digital Awards 2023 are a special occasion to celebrate excellence in digitising, connecting, and transforming health and care and the website was a finalist at an award ceremony held in Manchester on 22 June.

West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership’s Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) prevention programme delivered a successful campaign for know your numbers week. Know your numbers is a national campaign led by Blood Pressure UK, to increase awareness of the importance of blood pressure checking, monitoring and understanding what the numbers mean.

A trailblazing suicide prevention project – believed to be one of the first of its kind in the country – has delivered potentially life-saving work with Gypsy and Traveller communities across West Yorkshire.

Zoe, Early Intervention Midwife at Airedale General Hospital, tells us about the work being carried out by Airedale NHS Foundation Trust to reduce smoking in pregnancy

A patient from Hebden Bridge contacted their Care Coordinator with concerns that they hadn’t received their bowel cancer screening kit, even though the patient’s spouse had received theirs. This Case Study follows a personalised care approach, with good communication with the patient to ensure the issue was actioned and resolved.

Ella Fairbrother is the PGPA Social Prescribing and Care Coordination Lead for Lower Calder Valley PCN and a Personalised Care Institute ambassador

Pregnancy can feel a lot to deal with. You want to stop smoking, and you can – but you may need some help, it’s not easy. We hear from two young mums-to-be who were supported by their maternity health adviser to quit smoking.

The scheme, provides opportunities for learning and development sessions, mentorship and coaching. A celebration event was held with the first fellows to graduate from the two-year programme.

Libby Holroyd, a Clinical Nurse Specialist for Children’s Asthma at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, has recently been nominated for an award for her innovative work in reducing emergency admissions for children with severe asthma.

West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership are sharing stories from across our five places, Bradford District and Craven, Wakefield, Kirklees, Calderdale and Leeds about the work that our Learning Disabilities Challenge teams are doing.

People who have been suicidal or bereaved by suicide share their insight and thoughts on good practice within mental health services.

In West Yorkshire we have higher numbers of adults with a learning disability receiving long-term support from Local Authorities compared to the rest of England. Recognising this inequality, our ambition is that people with learning disabilities will experience the best possible health care and have improved outcomes from their local health services.

A staff member experiencing thoughts of suicide has praised the Partnership’s suicide prevention resources.

For the second year we ran an area wide ‘Together We Can’ winter campaign. This a long-term education and awareness campaign to alter public behaviour to minimise pressures on urgent and emergency services. Read highlights and the full evaluation report here.

Mick Lambert, a registered learning disability nurse and mental health practitioner working with West Yorkshire Liaison and Diversion Service, helps to support those in the criminal justice system with a view to diverting away from custodial sentences and identifying rehabilitative support as an alternative.