Blogs

This week's leadership message comes from Rob Webster, Chief Executive of NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) and CEO lead for the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership. We also have blogs from Ali Bishop, Equality Diversity Inclusion Transformation Lead for NHS West Yorkshire ICB, and Vicky Donnelly, Strategic Health Facilitator for the Learning Disabilities Health Support Team at Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust.

This week’s leadership message comes from Sonya Robertshaw, Workforce Lead for the West Yorkshire Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Autism Programme and Emilie Akselsen, Recruitment and Inclusion Coordinator at Touchstone. We also have a blog from Nicola Smith, Housing Co-ordinator (Learning Disabilities and Autism) at Wakefield District Housing.

We’re excited to share the outcomes of our work to review our maternity and neonatal services and support. This is a real example of co-production and collaboration in action leading to real change and improvements across our Local Maternity and Neonatal Services (LMNS) in West Yorkshire and Harrogate.

This week’s leadership message comes from Nigel Harrison, CEO of Yorkshire Sport Foundation, and Jo Baker, Associate Director, Strategy and Transformation and Sonya Ainley, Senior Project Manager for the Perinatal Pelvic Health Service for the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Local Maternity and Neonatal System (WY&H LMNS).

This week’s leadership message comes from Jim Barwick, CEO, Leeds GP Confederation. We also have a blog from Amritpal Reyat, Strategic Programmes and Health Inequalities lead at Wakefield District Health and Care Partnership.

This week’s leadership message comes from Hannah Beba, Consultant Pharmacist for Diabetes, West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership and Leeds Health and Care Partnership.

This week’s leadership message comes from Dr Mark Wright, Chair of the Yorkshire & Humber Kidney Network and a kidney consultant, and Dr Sunil Daga, Consultant Nephrologist and West Yorkshire’s kidney health lead. We also have a blog from Adam Smith, Project Manager for Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber, supporting our acute trusts to adopt clinically proven and cost-saving medical technologies under NHS England’s MedTech Funding Mandate.

Rehana Kosar recently celebrated 10 years since a successful kidney transplant. The 52-year-old suffered from kidney infections from a young age and was diagnosed with glomerulonephritis (a type of kidney disease) in 2013. Rehana spent a gruelling nine months undergoing dialysis before she found a suitable donor.

Birth trauma awareness week runs from the 15 -21 July.  This is an annual event to raise awareness of birth-related trauma. As West Yorkshire’s new maternal mental health service – Paths recently launched we are pleased to share a timely blog from Dr Estelle Verdi, Principal Counselling Psychologist and Service Lead.