We are working hard to further improve the health and care we provide to everyone living across West Yorkshire. You can see examples of the positive difference we are making on this page.
-
Our Suicide Prevention Strategy is aiming to make suicide prevention everyone's business, because every death by suicide is one death too many.
-
Paul Woodward, one of the longest surviving transplant patients in the country, is also one of the first people in West Yorkshire to benefit from a new COVID treatment
-
This group provides a consultation platform with a regular group of volunteerss, allowing them to use their local knowledge to comment on and influence new violence reduction unit interventions, and ensure any proposals best suit what our communities want.
-
Healthy Hearts project to help reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke for people at highest risk.
-
We invited colleagues and citizens to a series of twelve climate change workshops to help us understand exactly what changes and investments are needed.
-
In October 2021 we took the opportunity to celebrate the rich diversity of our people by hosting a week-long celebration of our communities. The event showcased work taking place across the area to connect on inclusion, celebrate diversity within the workforce and learn from others.
-
Our Partnership were proud to work with The Violence Reduction Unit and over 580 organisations and community allies by launching a movement which highlights our commitment to anti-racism in all its forms.
-
In October 2021 we hosted our latest community resilience event, the fourth in our ‘Stronger, healthier, better together’ series, giving colleagues from the VCSE sector the opportunity to ask questions directly to a panel of health and care partners.
-
The NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme is a free, 9-month behaviour change programme for those at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
-
Statistics show that more men die by suicide than women and that middle aged men are particularly at risk. We worked with men with lived experience to create the Great Minds Project. It increased awareness of the risk factors and warning signs of male suicide.
-
Our ambition to make an outstanding contribution to healthcare in what has been an exceptional and challenging period across the sector has been recognised.
-
Our Local Maternity System is a partnership of maternity and neonatal service providers, commissioners, local authorities and maternity voices partnerships working together to transform local maternity services.
-
Diabetes Week is an annual campaign organised by the charity Diabetes UK. In 2021, the Partnership's Elise Featherstone told her story for the campaign's #DiabetesStories series.