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 

We welcome questions from members of the public, which will be taken at the start of each meeting. To be considered during the meeting, questions must be submitted 24 hours  before the start of the meeting. Questions submitted after the 24 hour deadline will not be considered during the meeting, and a written response will be sent to the person who submitted the question and published on the ICB’s website afterwards. Please note that the total time on the agenda for questions is 15 minutes. Every effort will be made to include as many public questions as possible.

Please send your question by email to westyorkshireics.governance@nhs.net or if you prefer, you can telephone us with your question on 01924 317659. 

We currently alternate holding our meetings via Microsoft Teams and in public in venues in local communities across West Yorkshire. When meetings are held online, details of the livestream are made available on our website. Members of the public are welcome to attend in person meetings to ask their question, or we can read out the question on your behalf if you’re unable to attend. You can also watch the meeting on our livestream, and we will send you a copy of the response to your question.

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.

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