Blogs

This week’s leadership message comes from Tracey Wilcocks, Chief Executive, Overgate Hospice and Chair of the West Yorkshire Hospice Collaborative. For Dyslexia Awareness Month, we also have a blog from Sonya Robertshaw, Workforce Lead in the Partnership's Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Neurodiversity programme.

This week’s leadership message comes from Sarah Byrne, Knowledge Mobilisation Fellow, NIHR Applied Research Collaborative (ARC) Yorkshire and Humber and NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board. With the launch of a new West Yorkshire healthy heart hypertension guideline coming soon, we also have a blog from Emily Turner, a lead pharmacist with a specialist interest in cardio renal. Emily’s blog looks at how the new guideline is an opportunity for West Yorkshire to lead on prevention.

This week’s leadership message comes from Chris Evans, Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Operating Officer at The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust

To mark World Suicide Prevention Day on 10 September and Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, this blog comes from Kiah Hamilton-Adams, Project Manager for Suicide Prevention, NHS West Yorkshire ICB. We also have a blog from Tom Strickland, Director of Operations for the Surgery and Anaesthetics division at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust.

This week’s leadership message comes from Dr Daniel Romeu, a child psychiatry registrar in Leeds, currently undertaking a PhD Fellowship and leading the EmCASH project, and Jo Butterfield, Programme Manager for the West Yorkshire Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism Programme, supporting system-wide improvements for people and communities across the region.