1. Reduce health inequalities, for example if you’re a child or young person living in West Yorkshire, you are more than twice as likely to live in a poorer area than the average England resident.
2. Manage unwarranted variations in care, for example timely identification of deterioration in the health of people with learning disabilities, can reduce unnecessary hospital admissions, promote health positively and reduce premature mortality.
3. Secure the wider benefits of investing in health and care, for example, NHS investment in supporting local independent social care includes £12million for councils to pay the national living wage in advance of the 1 April 2022, to help retain staff.
4. Use our collective resources wisely. With circa £5bn to invest in people and communities and as the largest group of employers across the area, we’re ideally placed to develop good jobs for good health. The Healthy Hearts project in Bradford was scaled up across West Yorkshire so that local places didn’t need to develop their own approach to help reach more people at risk of heart attacks and stroke. This initiative has seen almost 19,000 additional patients added to hypertension register and almost 15,000 additional people treated to ensure their blood pressure is within recommended limits. Another example is that the Academic Health Science Network will launch 10 innovation schemes for cancer, beyond our PinPoint scheme.