Joint Forward Plan consultation report
We have consulted on how we deliver our Integrated Care Strategy through the Joint Forward Plan as part of working with people and communities and as set out in our involvement framework.
- Read our Joint Forward Plan consultation report
- Download the Joint Forward Plan consultation infographic
To ensure our Integrated Care Strategy and Joint Forward Plan are reflective of the current issues within our area and provide realistic objectives, we highly value the input from people living and working within West Yorkshire. Health inequalities are at the centre of our strategy and it is therefore important to build this from our local places (Bradford District and Craven, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield District).
The challenges we face are significant, but as we have seen over recent years, working together on the right footprint on the right issues gives us the best opportunity to address them. We will therefore continue to involve people and communities as we develop our Integrated Care Strategy and both develop and deliver the Joint Forward Plan. You can read the involvement framework on our website. This also links to our 2022/23 communication and involvement plan. We will continue to build on what people have told us as set out in our involvement mapping reports.
Our draft Integrated Care Strategy
Our places within West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership (Bradford District and Craven, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield District) all have representatives as part of a design group which focused on the five-year strategy refresh. The group commissioned Healthwatch to produce an insight report in August 2022 to collect comments on the current ten big ambitions and people’s current issues and concerns. This included (amongst other things); dentistry, access to care and the cost-of-living crisis. The report gathered local and West Yorkshire insight and has helped to identify any gaps for further engagement to target. They also reviewed the involvement and consultation mapping report of May 2022. The insight report featured in the update paper on the strategy's development at the Partnership Board meeting on public on the 6 September. It was also discussed as part of the Partnership Board meeting in public on the 6 December.
As well as the insight report, further work supported this. This included desktop insight gathering from partners in the area (such as information on domestic abuse from councils, violence reduction, sexual exploitation, and housing for health). This report is on our website. You can also read who has been involved in the development of the five-year strategy on our website.
Joint Forward Plan
Following the development of the Integrated Care Strategy, the Joint Forward Plan will outline how the NHS elements of the strategy will be delivered. We will start with the insight gathered from involvement on the strategy. The Joint Foward Plan will be published on 30 June 2023.
There is a statutory duty to consult on the Joint Forward Plan and this would include:
- The group of people that we have responsibility for - the 2.4 million population of West Yorkshire
- Any other people we consider appropriate to consult, such as colleagues working in health and care services.
A draft of the strategy has been shared with our Health and Wellbeing Boards, our Partnership Board and NHS England. The consultation needed isn’t what we’d normally think of as consultation (i.e. for service transformation), it’s more in line with policy consultations.
To engage with such a diverse range of communities and people, we will utilise a variety of methods in our local places. This will include:
- Surveys - An online survey will be used as the main way of gathering feedback. The survey will be disseminated in electronic format and be available on this website with links from other partner websites. It will be made available in print and alternative formats on request. We will be asking people three questions to share their views on how we should deliver on our ambitions. This will be linked to our strategy to inform our Joint Forward Plan delivery. The closing date is Monday 20 February 2023.
- Involvement events and meetings - We will use various existing involvement events and meetings to seek views from people and communities as well as the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector and Healthwatch. This will include linking into West Yorkshire programmes, such as harnessing the power of communities, West Yorkshire Cancer Alliance, the race equality network and unpaid carers.
We have produced background infomation and frequently asked questions (FAQs) to support this work – the FAQs will be updated throughout.- News bulletins – We will use our own and partner bulletins to share information and to seek staff, people and communities’ views.
- Social media - We will share details of the Joint Forward Plan consultation opportunity via our social media channels and encourage our followers to re-tweet and share content.
- Equality and quality impact assessments – work is taking place with equality and quality experts to ensure all impacts are considered.
This consultation activity ran from 10 January 2023 until 20 February 2023.