Engagement and consultation

Open engagements

• + Bretton Centre development, Fieldhead Hospital, Wakefield

  The Bretton Centre is a male low secure mental health unit.  It sits within the Fieldhead site, which provides a wider range of mental health, learning disability and community services. At SWYPFT we are improving our accommodation so that we can ensure the privacy and …

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Closed engagements

• + Wakefield Enhanced Opening Hours in GP Practices Survey

  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 …

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• + Reset and recovery

  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 …

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• + Commitment to carers

  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 …

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• + Forensic inpatients

  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 …

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• + All services in Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield

  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 …

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• + Choose well for mental health – a guide for adults

  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 …

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Closed consultations

• + Working in Partnership with People and Communities Consultation

  NHS England have launched a public consultation on the latest draft guidance on working with people and communities. The Draft consultation guidance summary and draft consultation guidance documents that need to be reviewed before completing the consultation can be found at Working in Partnership with …

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• + DRAFT South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) People and Communities Engagement Strategy – Start with People

  With thanks to the many people who gave their feedback to help us shape the ICB’s statutory People and Communities Strategy – we’re calling ours ‘Start with People: South Yorkshire’. A draft is now available for your comment here, should you wish to do so. …

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• + Help advise hospitals on their support for smokers

  The ‘QUIT Programme’ provides treatment and support for smokers in hospital. Researchers at the University of Sheffield are looking to see if the support to quit smoking works. What will I be asked to do? You will join a public group and come to 3 …

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• + Diabetic Eye Screening Programmes (DESP) in West Yorkshire

  NHS England would like to hear your views about the delivery of Diabetic Eye Screening in the West Yorkshire area including when and where the service should be offered, and any support that could be put in place so that all people over the age …

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• + JSIA Barnsley Community Safety Survey

  The Safer Barnsley Partnership Board (SBP) is a joint partnership between Barnsley Council, South Yorkshire Police, Berneslai Homes, South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, National Probation Trust, South West Yorkshire Partnership Foundation Trust and Barnsley Clinical Commissioning Group. Together they work with housing associations, local …

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• + Wakefield focus group to understand the Covid-19 pandemic and Covid-19 vaccine within Pakistani Communities

  Healthwatch Wakefield are hosting a focus group with people from the Pakistani communities to gain an understanding of experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccination programme.   Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, people from the Pakistani communities were disproportionately impacted when compared to people of White …

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