Our Neighbourhood Health programme
Across West Yorkshire, partners are coming together with a shared ambition to transform health and care around neighbourhoods, putting people and communities at the heart of how we work.
Neighbourhood Health brings together the NHS, councils, Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) organisations, and other partners such as the West Yorkshire Combined Authority to improve health, reduce inequalities and help people live well for longer.
By making better use of local knowledge, population data and what people tell us matters most, this approach supports more joined‑up, personalised care and a stronger focus on tackling unfair differences in health outcomes.
Over the coming year, the Government’s Neighbourhood Health Framework asks systems to prioritise three areas:
- improving access to routine and urgent care
- strengthening proactive and preventative support for people with the highest needs
- developing better alternatives to hospital‑based care.
Establishing Neighbourhood Teams (NTs) is an important part of this - helping local services work together as one team around neighbourhoods.
While these are the immediate delivery priorities, in West Yorkshire our vision and ambition goes further. Building on strong, values‑based partnership working, our teams are leading a longer‑term shift towards prevention, early support and better‑coordinated care, delivered as close to home as possible and shaped with communities themselves.
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9th September 2025
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2nd September 2025