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  • About us

      About us

    • Our approach to working together
      • Bradford Local Plan
      • Calderdale Local Plan
      • Harrogate Local Plan
      • Kirklees Local Plan
      • Leeds Local Plan
      • Wakefield Local Plan
    • Our partners
      • Proud to be a partnership
    • Our leadership
    • Partnership Board
    • Positive about Islam
  • Our priorities

      Our priorities

      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.

    • The difference our Partnership is making
    • Coronavirus (Covid-19) information and resources
      • Working together to reduce health inequalities
      • COVID-19 vaccination programme
    • Cancer
    • Capital and estates
    • Children, young people and families
    • Digital technology
      • Local health and care record exemplars
      • GP Online Consultation
    • Hospitals working together
    • Housing and Health
    • Improving planned care
      • Our West Yorkshire and Harrogate commissioning policies
    • Improving population health
      • Review into impacts of COVID-19 for BAME communities and staff
      • Diabetes Network
      • Climate Change
    • Innovation and improvement
    • Maternity care
    • Mental health, learning disability and autism
      • Learning disabilities
    • Our work with the community and voluntary sector
    • Preventing ill health
      • Healthy Hearts
      • Loneliness
    • Primary and community care
    • Personalised Care
    • Stroke
    • Supporting carers
      • Your Carers Toolkit
      • Working carers and Covid-19
    • Urgent and emergency care
      • Rotational trainee nursing associate apprenticeship course
      • Help us help you to get ‘to the right place first time'
    • Workforce
      • West Yorkshire & Harrogate Excellence Centre
      • Workforce health and wellbeing
      • System and Leadership Development Programme
  • News

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    • Blogs
    • Podcasts
    • Coronavirus (COVID-19)
  • Meetings

      Meetings

    • Upcoming events
    • Meetings affected by coronavirus
    • Supporting our BAME communities and staff - Review Panel meetings
      • About this review
    • West Yorkshire and Harrogate Joint Committee of Clinical Commissioning Groups
      • Previous meetings
      • Future meetings
      • Contact the Joint Committee of Clinical Commissioning Groups
      • Get involved
    • Our Partnership Board
      • Partnership Board papers
      • Board membership
      • Ask the Partnership Board a question
      • Partnership Board webcast
  • Publications

      Publications

      In this section you will find links to useful information and publications about our partnership.

    • Tackling health inequalities for Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities and colleagues
    • Better health and wellbeing for everyone: Our five year plan
    • Our Next Steps
    • Our Workforce Strategy​
    • Other Publications
    • Improving Population Health Annual Report
    • An Ethical Framework for West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership
    • The difference our Partnership is making
    • COVID-19 vaccination programme
  • Get involved

      Get involved

      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.

    • The NHS Long Term Plan
    • Looking out for our neighbours
    • Health and care champions
    • The work of our Health and Care Champions
  • Engagement and consultation

      Engagement and consultation

      Engagement gives people an opportunity to have their say on services. By gathering people's views, it helps us understand what matters to people.

    • Integrated Care Systems legislation
  • Any questions?

      Any questions?

      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.

    • You said, we did...
    • Frequently asked questions
  • Contact us
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Mental health, learning disability and autism

Our programme ambition is to work with the six local places (Bradford district and Craven. Calderdale, Harrogate, Kirklees, Wakefield and Leeds) within our partnership to support delivery of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health; NHS Long Term Plan and our Partnership Five Year Plan for people with mental health, learning disabilities and / or autism.

In January 2018, a decision was made to include specific work around learning disability care and support because it made sense to work on this collectively. Recently, the West Yorkshire Transforming Care Partnership has been developed and this will be a sub group of the programme.  The focus of the programme so far has mainly been on secondary, acute and specialist service provision although a by-product of the provider collaboration and because of new opportunities to collaborate has resulted in other initiatives being developed and included in the programme.

 

The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Inpatient Service in Leeds - transfer of service to new provider

The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Inpatient Service (CAMHS) in Leeds has been transferred from Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust (LCH) to Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT). 

Our Trust Boards agreed in September 2020 to the safe transfer of the leadership, governance and accountability of CAMHS inpatient service to LYPFT. We’re currently aiming to do this by 1 April 2021.

This will mean LYPFT taking formal contractual responsibility for managing the current eight bed inpatient service at Little Woodhouse Hall until the transfer across to the new 22 bed unit in December 2021. Catch up with the latest news about our exciting new build project, including its recently unveiled name, on the LYPFT website here.

An existing programme structure is in place for the new CAMHS unit which includes the development of an expanded clinical model and workforce requirements for the new unit, which will serve young people across West Yorkshire. Whilst this project continues to make good progress, our Trusts are working together at pace to ensure a smooth transition from one organisation to another.

More information is available here. 


Grief and Loss Support Service 

grief and loss support service

The WY&H HCP Grief and Loss Service offers information and advice to anyone struggling with feelings of loss, whether as a result of bereavement or other loss such as loss of a way of life, normal contact opportunities, social and work interactions. Pandemic restrictions may also mean that the usual practical and emotional support people can physically get from family, friends, faith groups, community groups during difficult times may not be there.

 The service is a free telephone helpline that operates 8am-8pm, 7 days a week and online chat facility. Specialist advisors will offer practical advice and emotional support, and where appropriate, can signpost people to local place based services for specific counselling or other support.

The service is commissioned by West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership and is delivered by West Yorkshire and Harrogate Independent Hospices Consortium, Bradford Bereavement Services Consortium and Leeds Mind. 

Find out more about the Grief and Loss Support Service.

  • Learning disabilities

    Working together to improve people with learning disabilities' lives

  • Mental Health

    Improving mental health services across West Yorkshire & Harrogate

  • Autism

    Information about autism

  • Programme governance

    Information about the way we work together and the mental health collaborative

  • Mental health, learning disability and autism programme news

    Mental health, learning disability and autism programme news

mental health, learning disability and autism strategy

Mental health, learning disability and autism strategy

mental health, learning disability and autism strategy - easyread version

Mental health, learning disability and autism strategy
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What are we going to do?

Our ambition is to make  best use of collective resources, ensuring that our services provide the best value for money; releasing efficiencies through economies of scale which can be reinvested in Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism/ADHD services as part of our commitment to the mental health investment standard.

We intend to:

  • Eliminate OOH placements (unless for very specialist support not available in our region)
  • Move to a co-ordinated bed function for some services
  • Ensure Access to 24/7 crisis services/Intensive Home Based Treatment
  • Reduce unnecessary A&E attendance
  • Reduce S136 Place of Safety Attendance
  • Adopt a zero suicide approach to prevention (10% overall reduction)
  • Develop new care models where it makes sense – CAMHS tier 4, Adult Eating Disorders, Forensic Services
  • Reduce waiting times for Autism/ADHD assessments (all age)
  • Deliver Transforming Care Programme trajectories (and support care close to home)

Latest mental health news and updates - November 2020

 

Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism Collaborative Board

The Board met on Tuesday. It includes colleagues from across mental health trusts / providers and is chaired by Dr Sara Munro, CEO for Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Children and young people’s mental health

Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust (LCH), in partnership with Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT), has submitted a planning application for a new mental health in-patient unit for young people in West Yorkshire. The brand new, purpose-built facility proposal is to build it on the St Mary’s Hospital site in Armley. It will provide 22 in-patient beds and deliver much needed improvements and facilities for young people in West Yorkshire. The funding for the building was announced as one of 12 successful bids to receive NHS England capital funds in November 2017. We will keep you updated when we know more.

New models of care

The West Yorkshire Children Adolescent Mental Health Services New Care Model (CAMHS NCM) went live on 1 April 2018. Overall the CAMHS NCM aims to reduce admissions for children and young people to inpatient mental health beds. We are doing this by ensuring that we have made use of all local offers before an admission is made. Where an admission is clinically necessary, we ensure that the young person comes back to community care as soon as it is clinically safe. This contributes to an overall reduction in occupied bed days (OBDs).

The success of the work is measured against the following performance targets:

  • Reduction in the use of out of area tier 4 beds

  • Reduction in average length of stay in hospitals

  • Reduction in admissions, readmissions and occupied bed days

  • Reduction in distance travelled for care

  • Positive self-reporting of the young person and family experience

  • Three areas were identified to drive the transformation of services for children and young people in West Yorkshire. These are:

  • 24/7 crisis care across West Yorkshire, a flexible service that responds to children and young people’s needs

  • Community intensive services (home treatment or outreach) offer for those who need more intensive support

  • ‘Safer spaces’ in the region – to avoid crisis situations.

  • Colleagues updated on the progress being made in these important areas of work

Adult mental health

NHS England specialised commissioning have invited bids from Partnerships like ours (also known as integrated care systems) by the 5 July to move to steady state commissioning for CAMHS tier 4, adult eating disorder and forensics. If successful this would result in four year contracts being awarded to the provider collaborative to lead on the delivery of these services for the Partnership. This builds on the new care model pilots we have been running for 12 months. We will be submitting bids in July. We expect formal decision on the contract award in the autumn.

Suicide prevention

Our Partnership has set a target of a 75% reduction in targeted areas and 10 % reduction in overall suicides by 2020. To help achieve this, the Partnership has invested £22,000 in a basic ‘train the trainers’ fire and rescue service pilot.

We have also recently received notification that the Partnership has been allocated £114,000 of funding to support suicide prevention trailblazer for the area and also £173k for postvention work, which will be used to roll out the Leeds model. You can view the suicide prevention annual report here.

CONNECT: a new adult eating disorders service for West Yorkshire and Harrogate

CONNECT: The West Yorkshire and Harrogate adult eating disorders service, launched in April 2018. It has been set up as a two-year pilot project funded by NHS England as part of their ‘new models of care programme’.

CONNECT, which is part of Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, aims to provide equitable access to NHS care for adults with eating disorders across the West Yorkshire and Harrogate area – something that had not been in place until its launch. You can read more here.

We have also produced a case study for you to read here.

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  • About us
    • About us

    • Our approach to working together
      • Our approach to working together

      • Bradford Local Plan
      • Calderdale Local Plan
      • Harrogate Local Plan
      • Kirklees Local Plan
      • Leeds Local Plan
      • Wakefield Local Plan
    • Our partners
      • Our partners

      • Proud to be a partnership
    • Our leadership
    • Partnership Board
    • Positive about Islam
  • Our priorities
    • Our priorities

    • The difference our Partnership is making
    • Coronavirus (Covid-19) information and resources
      • Coronavirus (Covid-19) information and resources

      • Working together to reduce health inequalities
      • COVID-19 vaccination programme
    • Cancer
    • Capital and estates
    • Children, young people and families
    • Digital technology
      • Digital technology

      • Local health and care record exemplars
      • GP Online Consultation
    • Hospitals working together
    • Housing and Health
    • Improving planned care
      • Improving planned care

      • Our West Yorkshire and Harrogate commissioning policies
    • Improving population health
      • Improving population health

      • Review into impacts of COVID-19 for BAME communities and staff
      • Diabetes Network
      • Climate Change
    • Innovation and improvement
    • Maternity care
    • Mental health, learning disability and autism
      • Mental health, learning disability and autism

      • Learning disabilities
    • Our work with the community and voluntary sector
    • Preventing ill health
      • Preventing ill health

      • Healthy Hearts
      • Loneliness
    • Primary and community care
    • Personalised Care
    • Stroke
    • Supporting carers
      • Supporting carers

      • Your Carers Toolkit
      • Working carers and Covid-19
    • Urgent and emergency care
      • Urgent and emergency care

      • Rotational trainee nursing associate apprenticeship course
      • Help us help you to get ‘to the right place first time'
    • Workforce
      • Workforce

      • West Yorkshire & Harrogate Excellence Centre
      • Workforce health and wellbeing
      • System and Leadership Development Programme
  • News
    • News

    • Blogs
    • Podcasts
    • Coronavirus (COVID-19)
  • Meetings
    • Meetings

    • Upcoming events
    • Meetings affected by coronavirus
    • Supporting our BAME communities and staff - Review Panel meetings
      • Supporting our BAME communities and staff - Review Panel meetings

      • About this review
    • West Yorkshire and Harrogate Joint Committee of Clinical Commissioning Groups
      • West Yorkshire and Harrogate Joint Committee of Clinical Commissioning Groups

      • Previous meetings
      • Future meetings
      • Contact the Joint Committee of Clinical Commissioning Groups
      • Get involved
    • Our Partnership Board
      • Our Partnership Board

      • Partnership Board papers
      • Board membership
      • Ask the Partnership Board a question
      • Partnership Board webcast
  • Publications
    • Publications

    • Tackling health inequalities for Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities and colleagues
    • Better health and wellbeing for everyone: Our five year plan
    • Our Next Steps
    • Our Workforce Strategy​
    • Other Publications
    • Improving Population Health Annual Report
    • An Ethical Framework for West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership
    • The difference our Partnership is making
    • COVID-19 vaccination programme
  • Get involved
    • Get involved

    • The NHS Long Term Plan
    • Looking out for our neighbours
    • Health and care champions
    • The work of our Health and Care Champions
  • Engagement and consultation
    • Engagement and consultation

    • Integrated Care Systems legislation
  • Any questions?
    • Any questions?

    • You said, we did...
    • Frequently asked questions
  • Contact us