Our Partnership is made up of organisations working closely together to plan services and address the challenges facing health and care services across the area.
In this section you will find links to useful information and publications about our partnership.
We are committed to meaningful conversations with people, on the right issues at the right time. We believe this is an important part of the way we work.
In this section you will find all Freedom of Information (FOI) requests made to our Partnership. You can also ask a question of your own.
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.
The Joint Committee was established in June 2017 and has delegated powers from individual CCGs to make collective decisions on services including cancer, mental health, urgent care and improving planned care.
Find out more about the Joint Committee of CCGs here.
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.
West Yorkshire and Harrogate (WY&H), Public and Patient Involvement (PPI) Assurance Group (formally known as Lay Member Reference Group) is now operating 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 Terms of Reference (TOR) here.
