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Improving Population Health programme news, blogs and events

West Yorkshire leads the way supporting long covid recovery through Healthy Working Life programme

Posted: 16th July 2025
Campaign relaunch aims to help more young pregnant women quit smoking

Posted: 10th July 2025
Trauma-informed education conference unites educators in West Yorkshire

Posted: 9th July 2025
West Yorkshire project wins national recognition at Antibiotic Guardian Awards

Posted: 10th June 2025
Working together to raise awareness and reduce risk of type 2 diabetes

Posted: 29th May 2025
Freshwater and hidden dangers - how to stay safe from antimicrobial resistance

Posted: 23rd May 2025
West Yorkshire unites for Dying Matters Awareness Week

Posted: 19th May 2025
Working together to prevent heart disease across West Yorkshire

Posted: 8th May 2025
Progress and next steps to strengthen suicide prevention across West Yorkshire

Posted: 9th April 2025
Supporting our ambition to increase the years of life that people live in good health in West Yorkshire

Posted: 9th April 2025

Latest blogs from our programme

Professor Eleanor Scott talks about understanding gestational diabetes and why a national audit was long overdue

Posted: 21st May 2026

To mark Diabetes Prevention Week 2026 (Monday, 26 May to Sunday, 1 June) Professor Eleanor Scott Professor of Medicine (Diabetes and Maternal Health) University of Leeds and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, talks about understanding gestational diabetes: why a national audit was long overdue.
Championing inclusion health: why this work matters and how the Workforce Training Framework was born

Posted: 17th February 2026
Carers Rights Day - Thursday, 20 November 2025: know your rights, use your rights – a blog by Jo Lancaster, Senior Project Manager – Unpaid Carers and Personalisation

Posted: 17th November 2025

Carers Rights Day is always a good moment to pause and reflect, but this year’s theme ‘know your rights, use your rights’ really resonates. I currently work full time at West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) while caring for my adult son, Toby, who has Down’s Syndrome and other complex medical needs.
This week’s leadership message comes from Richard James, Consultant in Public Health, and Rob Goodyear, Associate Director of Strategic Operations, NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board

Posted: 14th November 2025
Supporting young people with type 1 diabetes: what the latest audit tells us. Blog from Emma Savage, Children and Young People’s Diabetes Network Manager, Yorkshire and Humber Diabetes Network

Posted: 13th November 2025
Why trauma-informed care and strong integrated care boards matter

Posted: 21st October 2025
This week’s leadership message comes from Sarah Smith, Deputy Director, Improving Population Health, NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board, who discusses how a shared sense of purpose can help us navigate uncertainty and work together for a healthier, more equitable West Yorkshire

Posted: 17th October 2025
Roz Bradshaw, Head of Improving Population Health Programme, reflects on the highs and lows of living with diabetes and the importance of being seen, valued and cared for

Posted: 15th June 2025
Together we can address the silent epidemic of chronic kidney disease - a blog by Nina Davies, Alice Pennock and Aamina Beebi

Posted: 11th March 2025
This week’s leadership message comes from Sarah Chadwick, Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Prevention Programme Manager for West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board

Posted: 22nd November 2024

This week’s leadership message comes from Sarah Chadwick, Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and Infection Prevention Programme Manager for West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB). We also have a blog from Dr Nisha Alex, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Medical Clinical Lead for Wakefield CAMHS (South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust) and Jo Rooney, Children and Young People’s Senior Commissioning and Transformation Manager (NHS West Yorkshire ICB).

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