Cancer Alliance Board
The Cancer Alliance Board is a partnership of health and social care clinicians, experts. MacMillan, Cancer Research UK, all working together to achieve our aims for cancer services.
You can find out more about the aims of the Board by reading this Delivery Plan.
West Yorkshire and Harrogate Joint Committee of Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs)
The Joint Committee was established in June 2017. The Committee has delegated powers from individual CCGs to make collective decisions around specific work programmes, for example mental health, urgent care and stroke.
The Committee works closely with partners including councils, hospitals and community and mental health trusts so that there is a clearer understanding of, and shared solutions to, health priorities to ensure better access to consistently high quality care.
The Joint Committee has an independent lay chair and two lay members and their role is to act as advocates for public interests. The Committee meets in public every two months.
Find out more about attending Joint Committee meetings and the work so far here.
The Joint Committee of the Clinical Commissioning Groups have produced their Annual Report for 2017-2018. You can read it here.
West Yorkshire and Harrogate Local Workforce Action Board (LWAB)
The workforce programmes of our partnership are supported through Local Workforce Action Boards (LWABs) which ensure that decisions about the health and social care workforce take place in the right place at the right time with the right people. The LWABs are working closely with health and social care providers and commissioners around the workforce elements of the STPs.
The LWAB for West Yorkshire and Harrogate is jointly chaired by Mike Curtis, Local Director for Health Education England working across Yorkshire and the Humber, and Dr Ros Tolcher, Chief Executive of Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust.
For more information about the LWAB or to be added to a distribution list for communications please contact lwabs.yh@hee.nhs.uk.
Patient and Public Involvement Assurance Group (formally known as Lay Member Reference Group)
West Yorkshire and Harrogate (WY&H), Public and Patient Involvement (PPI) Assurance Group (formally known as Lay Member Reference Group) is now operating with shadow arrangements as a formal part of the Joint Committee of WY&H Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) governance arrangements.
The PPI Assurance Group will assure the Joint Committee that the public and patient voice is represented and heard, and that public and patient views and experiences inform decisions on the planning, development, design, redesign, implementation and evaluation of commissioned services.
The membership of the Group includes Governing Body Members for Patient and Public Involvement of each CCG across WY&H and it will meet six times a year. You can view minutes of these meetings below.
For more information about the assurance group you can read the DRAFT Terms of Reference (TOR) here.