Blogs

To mark National Co-production Week (1-5 July), this week’s leadership message comes from Arfan Hussain, Strategy and Transformation Programme Manager, and Colin Hurst, Insight, Involvement and Consultation Lead for NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB). For Clean Air Day, which took place on 20 June, we also have a blog from Maria Storer, Project Manager for Climate Change and Housing at the ICB.

This week’s leadership message comes from Shelley Russell, Programme Manager for NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board’s learning disability programme.

Hello, my name is Rob Goodyear I am the Associate Director for Strategic Operations in the Clinical and Professional Directorate, working for James Thomas, the ICB’s Medical Director, and Beverley Geary the ICBs Director of Nursing.

This week’s leadership message comes from Ian Holmes, Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Strategy and Partnerships for NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Hayden Ridsdale, a Senior Strategy and Transformation Programme Manager working in the ICB. To mark 'What Matters to You' Day, which was on 6 June, we also have a blog from Katy Swinhoe, a project manager in the West Yorkshire Improving Population Health Programme.

This week’s leadership message comes from Kate O’Connell, Director of Leeds Health and Care Academy and Leeds Strategic Workforce. To celebrate the culture and history of our Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities and the contributions they bring to our society, we also have a blog from Ellie Rogers, CEO of Leeds GATE.

This week’s leadership message comes from Rhona Mulvihill, the new Maternity and Neonatal Independent Senior Advocate for West Yorkshire and Harrogate. We also have a blog from Jo Baker, Associate Director for Strategy and Transformation at NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board, celebrating Volunteers Week 2024.

The first week in June is National Volunteers week here in the UK, when we take time to recognise the valuable role volunteers play across our health and care system.

This week’s leadership message comes from Katie Clarke, Co-director of Bringing Us Together and Visits Unlimited. Katie works across the country as a trainer, facilitator and consultant, and she uses her lived experience as a parent carer to campaign for social justice.