Integrated Care Board meetings
Healthwatch and West Yorkshire Voice play a key part in feeding people’s voices into high level decision-making such as at the Integrated Care Board (ICB) Board meetings. These sessions take a ‘focus on’ areas such as access to primary care and mental health services. These sessions are made up of Board members, professionals, members of the public and community leaders.
The West Yorkshire Voice network and local Healthwatch listen to people and gather their experiences to help write a ‘briefing paper’ which is submitted to the board. We summarise the main issues for the people of West Yorkshire and make recommendations based on these.
People can post questions to the ICB in relation to items on the meeting agenda. These questions must be submitted 24 hours prior the meeting and will be answered at the start of the meeting. We are currently looking at ways that the process of asking questions can be made more accessible. Members of the public are invited to attend the meeting in person or watch the meeting as it is live streamed.
Here are the briefing papers we have written with input from West Yorkshire Voice members:
- August 2023 ‘Focus on’ mental health
- January 2024 ‘Focus on’ winter
- March 2024 ‘Focus on’ hospital care
- June 2024 ‘Focus on’ health inequalities among working age adults
Neurodiversity summit
The West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership delivered ‘The West Yorkshire Neurodiversity Summit’ in December 2023. The event brought health and care professionals with partners from education, local councils, community groups, the voluntary sector, and people with lived experience from across West Yorkshire.
West Yorkshire Voice asked people who have lived experience and carers to share their views and ideas with us before the event. We have highlighted people’s experiences in this report Life on Hold.