West Yorkshire Voice staff members
My role involves running the West Yorkshire Voice network. This network supports people’s voices to be fed into decisions being made at a West Yorkshire level about how health and care services are run.
I wanted to do this work to help make sure that everyone has fair access to services and the support they need as an individual.
I try to bring my own experiences of mental health, neurodiversity and being part of the LGBTQIA+ community.
My role involves overseeing the West Yorkshire Voice work and helping to make sure people’s voices are central to decision-making at West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board.
I work closely with the six local Healthwatch organisations that cover West Yorkshire and Craven to share collective feedback on people’s experience of health and care to the various boards and committees of the Integrated Care Board.
West Yorkshire Voice steering group
The aim of the steering group is to help us make sure that West Yorkshire Voice meets the needs of local people of West Yorkshire. The group helps to steer our work by providing helpful challenge, as well as bringing new ideas to our work. They offer advice and ideas from both personal experience and from their voluntary and professional work with local communities.
There are eight steering group members.