Blogs

This week’s leadership message comes from Rachel Spencer-Henshall, Strategic Director for Public Health, Corporate Strategy and Commissioning at Kirklees Council. Rachel is also the Public Health Lead for West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership. We also have a blog from Sarah De Biase, Senior Programme Manager with the Partnership's Long-term Conditions and Personalisation Team and Improving Population Health programme.

This week’s leadership message comes from Tim Ryley, Accountable Officer and Place-lead for Leeds Health and Care Partnership. Tim is also part of the NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board Executive Management Team. We also have a blog from Adele Bunch, Head of Portfolio for health inequalities, mental health and patient and public involvement in West Yorkshire.

This week’s leadership message comes from Sasha Bhat, priority director for healthy minds for Bradford District and Craven Health and Care Partnership and deputy director of integration at Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust.

This week’s leadership message comes from Heather Smith and Kirsty Bramley-Dove. It is all about the work of the NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board and Health Innovation Yorkshire and Humber (formally YHAHSN) and the polypharmacyprogramme.

We also have two blogs. One is about Yorkshire and Humber Care Records by Zoe Richardson and Rochelle Featherstone from the ICB Digital Team. The other is about National Cholesterol Month by Pei-Theng Aizlewood, an advanced pharmacist in the Medicines Optimisation Team for the ICB in Leeds.

We also have a blog from Dáša, Laura and Nick, colleagues at the Wakefield District Health & Care Partnership

This week’s leadership message comes from Jo Butterfield, West Yorkshire Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism Programme Manager. To mark Allied Health Professionals Day on 14 October we have a blog from the West Yorkshire Allied Health Professionals Council, plus we have a blog from Charlotte Goulding in collaboration with Kirkwood Hospice about World Hospice Week.

This week’s leadership message comes from Dr Miriam Isaac, Consultant Psychiatrist for Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. We also have blogs from Ester Jamera, founder of the Black & Minority Ethnic Staff Network at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and from Charlene Sibanda and Sarah Warburton, Assistant Psychologists for the West Yorkshire Staff Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub.

The West Yorkshire Strategic Race Equality Network would like to support the ‘Saluting our Sisters’ theme for Black History Month by sharing an inspiring blog by one of our members. The blog charts Ester Jamera’s amazing journey into leadership and beyond following a move from Zimbabwe many years ago. Ester shares her story through the lens of diversity, transition and ambition. We hope you find it an insightful read.