We want as many people as possible to be able to join this conversation about the NHS. To support this, there are a variety of formats and ways to respond to the questions that meet a range of accessibility needs. An easy read for the national survey can be accessed here.
Thank you for your interest and for getting involved in the 10 Year Plan. The national NHS 10 Year Health Plan has now been published.
By engaging with our West Yorkshire approach, the views and experiences of you and your local community have helped to influence change to the services that you actively engage with at a local level.
If you would like to be kept up-to-date with our work on the 10-Year Plan, and new opportunities to get involved, please give us your contact details. To help share and promote the West Yorkshire 10 Year Plan on your social media channels, please use the 10 Year Plan social media toolkit for assets and messaging.
Our involvement
The West Yorkshire survey and various workshops held across the region are now closed. We are in the process of collecting all insights from your views to help us shape healthcare across West Yorkshire. Visit our 'What we've found out' webpage for more.
One of the ways you can get involved is via Reddit. We are posting on the Leeds, Wakefield, Bradford and Huddersfield subreddit each week, asking users to leave comments around the 10 Year plan shifts.
What is Reddit?
Reddit is a social media platform and online forum where users can share, discuss, and vote on content. It is organised into thousands of communities known as "subreddits," each focused on a specific topic, ranging from news and technology to hobbies and entertainment.
Users can submit posts in the form of text, links, images, or videos, and others can upvote or downvote them, determining their visibility. These posts can be commented on, which in turn can also be upvoted or downvoted.
The site operates on a mix of anonymity and community-driven governance, making it a unique space for both casual users and dedicated contributors. While Reddit is often a hub for viral content and niche interests, it also plays a role in breaking news and public discourse.
Why are we using Reddit?
Reddit differs from other social media platforms like Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), and Instagram in its structure and purpose. While most social media sites focus on personal connections and curated content from friends or influencers, Reddit is built around topic-based communities rather than individual users.
Instead of a centralised feed driven by an algorithm that prioritises personal interactions, Reddit’s content is sorted by upvotes and downvotes, allowing the most popular or relevant posts within each subreddit to rise to the top. This makes it more discussion-focused and less about personal branding or self-promotion. Unlike Facebook, for example, which encourages real names, Reddit allows users to remain anonymous, leading to more open discussions and niche interests thriving.
The ICB is using Reddit as an involvement tool for the ’10 Year Plan’ engagement due to its forum-like platform, and it’s focus on driving discussion. It is preferential over other platforms, as a following is not needed to drive attention to a post. In addition, Facebook community groups would take up significantly more resources to administer, and Reddit can be overseen by people who do not have an account or following the subreddits.
The Partnership has posted on Reddit three times, over a span of three weeks, and has had more than 20,000 views and over 40 comments so far.
Ideas for change in West Yorkshire
For the 10 Year Plan to be a success, we needed to draw on the experiences, skills and ideas of patients, carers, staff and members of the public.
These could be:
- Ideas about how the NHS could change to deliver high-quality care more effectively and what works well that the NHS should do more
- Ideas about how other parts of the health and care system and other organisations in society could change to promote better health and/or improve the way health and care services work together
- Ideas about how individuals and communities could do things differently in future to improve people’s health.
Want to help improve health and social care in West Yorkshire?
Thank you for your interest in getting involved in the 10 Year Plan. If you want to provide your views on other health and care issues across West Yorkshire, then please consider joining West Yorkshire Voice. The aim of West Yorkshire Voice is to reflect the diverse population and communities from across West Yorkshire.