Ask the Partnership Board a question

How you can get involved and have your say

The Partnership Board wants people to be involved in the decisions that it takes. You can find information about the Board, including the dates of future meetings.

All of our meetings are live-streamed on our website.

Our commitments to you:

• We will publish agenda papers on our website, five working days before the meeting
• We aim to write reports in plain-English
• The Healthwatch and voluntary, community and social enterprise sector representatives on the Partnership Board will challenge anything that is not clear, accessible and in plain-English
• There will be a dedicated agenda item for public questions and comments at the start of each meeting.

Asking a question or making a statement

Members of the public will be able to ask questions direct to the Partnership Board or, if preferred, a member of the team can ask the question on thier behalf.

Please email your question to us at westyorkshireics.governance@nhs.net or use the contact form below:

If you prefer, you can telephone us with your question on 01924 317659.

Please send your question to us by 1:30pm on the last working day before the meeting. If you would prefer a member of our team to ask the question on your behalf, please let us know.

Answering questions

• If the meeting is being held online, we will show your question in full on screen to aid accessibility.
• Wherever possible, we will give a clear answer to questions during the meeting
• All verbal responses will be easy to understand and jargon-free
• The Healthwatch and voluntary, community and social enterprise sector representatives on the Partnership Board will challenge anything that is not clear, accessible and in plain-English
• If we run out of time, we will agree with you how you would like your question to be answered.

After the meeting

• We will provide written responses within 10 working days and will publish the question and our response on the website as part of the record of each meeting
• We will ask you if you are happy that the response answered your question
• We will give all questioners contact information for the relevant area of work or organisation to enable them to continue discussion on the issue if helpful, including opportunities to get involved with the Partnership’s work
• We will add all written responses to the papers for the next Board meeting as an ‘item for information’

What we ask of you

Partnership Boards are business meetings which, for transparency, we hold in public. They are not ‘public meetings’ for consulting with the public – we do this in a variety of different ways.

• Find out more about how we engage with people.

We believe Partnership Board meetings will be more successful if everyone is courteous and respects each other. We ask that you please follow these simple guidelines:

• Please only ask a question or make a comment about an item on the agenda
• Please be brief so that as many people as possible can have their say
• Please recognise that we can only answer questions during the meeting if time allows

We will acknowledge any questions that do not relate to the business of the meeting, and may redirect the question for a response. We will publish any response on our website.