The national NHS 10 Year Health Plan has now been published. In West Yorkshire, you could continue to provide your views on local health and social care services across the region through a number of different ways including the local survey, workshops centred around the three main shifts, and through existing networks.
Since then, we have now launched this webpage which is a dedicated hub to all of the insights, views, and good practice examples we have collected so far from the 10 Year Plan, with more analysis still to come, including analysis tools in the next few weeks to support teams and partners across West Yorkshire get a head start on developing their response to the plan when it is published.
If there’s specific data and insight that you think would be useful in your teams or organisations, please get in touch by emailing wyicb.wycommsand.involvement@nhs.net.
The West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership’s newly established Insight Library is regularly updated with helpful insight and data – including intelligence collected from our 10 Year Plan engagement. We have also been aligning previous intelligence to the three shifts to make sure that we continue conversations build on previous feedback. To request access, please email wyicb.wycommsand.involvement@nhs.net. You can also sign up for regular 10 Year Plan updates to keep in the loop with more information.
Summary of our findings so far
Over the last five months, we have engaged extensively with local communities, partner organisations, staff, clinicians and many other groups of people to gauge their views on what is important to capture and include in the 10-Year Health Plan.
In West Yorkshire, the goals of our involvement work were to make sure the people and staff of West Yorkshire could have their say, feeding into the development of national policy, strengthen existing relationships with patients and the public, by giving them opportunities to make difference with this high-profile work; model the behaviour we aspire to. To meet the challenge of the 10-year plan we will need to work as a system, work in partnership from the beginning.
We uploaded the insight we had gathered to the national portal, before the deadline of 14 February 2025. These included summaries of multiple discussion sessions that took place, looking specifically at the three shifts.
We also undertook bespoke sessions with the gypsy and traveller community, people in contact with the criminal justice system, and sex workers. We also uploaded views captured by our online questionnaires, and those captured by partner activity that added 10-Year Health Plan discussions to pre-existing involvement opportunities. Our fieldwork continued following this upload.
The fieldwork for the initial phase of involvement closed at the end of May. The initial involvement phase reached:
- approximately 78,000 people - those who saw a call to action regarding our 10-year plan involvement
- over 1,800 people who interacted with our content – those who liked, shared, visited our website, or booked onto a workshop
- more than 1,100 people gave their views – those who attended a session, completed a questionnaire, or commented on social media.
Across all shifts, the involvement identifies the need for a change in culture. Staff, patients and the public need confidence in services that move into communities, digital solutions, and how their data is managed and protected, their ability to self-manage and support people to manage their health and long-term conditions. There was concern raised across all shifts regarding moving services and prevention to primary or community care at the same time as a digital change, which would put a huge pressure on a part of the system that is already under great strain.
Partner organisations have also shared their involvement findings with us to make sure other organisations across West Yorkshire can benefit. These have been added to the West Yorkshire Insight Library. Insight stored in the library is also being aligned to the three shifts to support teams across West Yorkshire build on, and benefit from, work that has already been completed. This continues the conversation rather than duplicates conversations.
The success of this involvement would not have been possible without the support of ICB teams and wider ICS partners. Place colleagues have promoted involvement channels and facilitated sessions. Wider partners presented work that is happening across West Yorkshire that brings the shifts to life. West Yorkshire Healthwatch reached health inclusion groups.
Focused work is ongoing with those people and communities that we didn't manage to reach in the last round of engagement. We are working with them to find out the best way to hear their views. Insight from health inclusion groups will appear here soon.
