The difference our Partnership is making

People who have been suicidal or bereaved by suicide share their insight and thoughts on good practice within mental health services.

In West Yorkshire we have higher numbers of adults with a learning disability receiving long-term support from Local Authorities compared to the rest of England. Recognising this inequality, our ambition is that people with learning disabilities will experience the best possible health care and have improved outcomes from their local health services.

A staff member experiencing thoughts of suicide has praised the Partnership’s suicide prevention resources.

For the second year we ran an area wide ‘Together We Can’ winter campaign. This a long-term education and awareness campaign to alter public behaviour to minimise pressures on urgent and emergency services. Read highlights and the full evaluation report here.

Mick Lambert, a registered learning disability nurse and mental health practitioner working with West Yorkshire Liaison and Diversion Service, helps to support those in the criminal justice system with a view to diverting away from custodial sentences and identifying rehabilitative support as an alternative.

The Staff Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub supported induction sessions for members of the West Yorkshire Community Mental Health Transformation (CMHT) workforce and the larger West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership.

Leading Mental Wellbeing, funded by the Staff Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub, highlighted the ‘the important role that leaders can play in creating a mental wellbeing culture in the workplace’ according to a recent participant.

We know that financial hardship affects people’s mental and physical wellbeing so we’ve been working closely with our partners to get those most affected by this crisis, the support they urgently need.

Thanks to vital funding from the staff Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub, The Cellar Trust has been hosting a series of webinars to promote mental health and wellbeing.

One of our Partnership’s 10 Big Ambitions is to reduce the gap in life expectancy for autistic and other neurodiverse people, people with learning disabilities and people with mental health conditions by 10% by 2024.

Like COVID Medicines Delivery Units (CMDUs) across West Yorkshire, the CMDU service at The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust is treating patients at highest risk of becoming seriously ill with the COVID-19 virus.

Patients with type 1 diabetes will be eligible for life-changing continuous glucose monitors after the health service negotiated and secured funding for this innovative technology.

Primary care networks in the Wakefield area worked with colleagues across the voluntary and statutory sectors to improve engagement with people registered with a learning disability by understanding the challenges and barriers they face when accessing primary care services.

In June 2022 the Partnership launched a new website that provides consistent, accurate and trustworthy healthcare advice to parents, carers, young people and professionals.