The difference our Partnership is making

Yorkshire Ambulance Service's community engagement team provides training on life-saving skills and helps people understand how and when to use their services.

Calderdale Cares Partnership requested assistance from Voluntary Action Calderdale and the community and voluntary sector to communicate important winter messages to target groups during the winter of 2021/22.

Bradford District and Craven Health and Care Partnership created a handy booklet called ‘If your child is poorly’ developed with the input of specialist paediatric clinicians to support local families.

A Working Carer’s Passport is a record that can be printed or stored electronically. It identifies the carer and sets out an offer of support, services or other benefits.

In West Yorkshire and Harrogate, around 3,000 people a year have a stroke with two thirds of stroke survivors left with some form of physical, mental or emotional disability – often completely life changing.

The Partnership’s Children, Young People (CYP) and Families Programme is working with the West Yorkshire wide CYP Epilepsy Group to improve the care journey of children and young people with epilepsy.

The Partnership’s Personalised Care Programme secured funding from NHS England to deliver an online training programme with follow-up support for its health and care workforce, volunteers and link workers.

As we celebrate International Day of the Midwife 2022, we take a look back at last year’s event. We wanted to give #IDM2021 the recognition it deserved, and raise the profile of the great work undertaken each and every day by the maternity workforce.

Leadership Fellow Caroline joined us for six months from secondment in her role as Lead Pharmacist at Leeds and Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

We appointed John in support of our diverse leadership ambition as part of the Partnership’s The Fellowship.

Matt wanted to work with the partnership because of our strong reputation for tackling health inequalities.

Richard is on a public health training programme, and is spending his third year with the Improving Population Health team which, he says, has allowed him to focus on the issues he is passionate about.

Claire did a placement with the Improving Population Health Team as part of her training to become a Consultant in Public Health. 

The NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme is helping people who are at high risk of type 2 diabetes to make lasting lifestyle changes. Follow John on his weight loss journey, from his initial thoughts about embarking on the programme, to his reflections on the last session.

Our Planned Care Citizens’ Panel was introduced in partnership with Healthwatch to support communications around delays to planned care due to the pandemic.