Wakefield’s Primary Care Networks (groups of GP practices working alongside other health and care partners) are working together to look at how their services outside of the usual core practice opening hours of 8am – 6.30pm are provided. They want to hear from their patients …
As the Trust start to think about recovering services impacted by the pandemic a Trust wide survey to capture views across all service areas in Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees, and Wakefield has taken place. The Trust is starting to use the best of the past and …
It is estimated that carers save the UK around £132 billion a year and the benefits they bring to the NHS cannot be underestimated. It is likely that every one of us will have caring responsibilities at some time in our lives, with the challenges …
The Trust have been testing out a range of methods and approaches that may be best suited to different groups or audiences. Discovery interviews ensure that a person is provided with an opportunity to narrate their own story using a series of prompts. The Trust …
As part our responsibility to ensure we maintain our legal obligations for equality, the Trust completes an annual process called the ‘Equality Delivery System 2’ or ‘EDS2’ to assess how well we are doing in maintain our equality duties. The Trust has an annual responsibility …
The Trust launched and created a new guide and campaign to help people in Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield to ‘choose well’ when looking after their mental health and wellbeing. Information and support around mental health and wellbeing can sometimes be difficult to find, conflicting …
This project was set up in direct response to the Covid19 pandemic and the impact this had on BAME communities. North Kirklees suffered a high number of deaths in the BAME communities compared to the other areas of the Trust. In some cases, 2 members …
The service offers support and treatment for children and young people, aged up to 18 years old, who are experiencing difficulties with their mental health and wellbeing. The services are based at Airedale Health Centre and Drury Lane and Wellbeing Centre in Wakefield. The Trust …
The Pastoral and Spiritual Care service offers a person-centred approach to supporting people at all times but especially when dealing with difficult and challenging circumstances by encouraging them to work with their own value and belief system to find hope, healing and spiritual wellbeing. It …
The West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health Care Partnership, now ICS has been working collectively across a number of organisations and in consultation with public health leads to deliver specific suicide bereavement support services across the region. South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the …