West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board https://www.wypartnership.co.uk/about
ICS made up of 5 ‘Places’ – Bradford and Craven; Calderdale; Leeds; Kirklees; Wakefield District
Each ‘place’ will have an integrated care board committee to make decisions, similar to the West Yorkshire integrated care board (e.g. ‘Leeds Committee of the West Yorkshire ICB’ https://www.healthandcareleeds.org/about/committee/)
ICB Chair – Cathy Elliott; ICB Chief Exec – Rob Webster
Papers are published on line 5 days before the meeting
Members of the public can ask a question at the beginning if they attend in person or can watch video link and have their question read out for them. See link below for submitting question which has to be done 24 hours before meeting; papers made available 5 days beforehand and question has to relate to something on the agenda. https://www.westyorkshire.icb.nhs.uk/contact/submit-question
West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership Board https://www.wypartnership.co.uk/meetings/partnershipboard
Public can ask questions at the beginning of the meeting in person, or submit questions as for IC Board.
Chair: Councillor Tim Swift (leader of Calderdale Council)
Vice-chair: Cathy Elliott
Leeds Health and Care Partnership https://www.healthandcareleeds.org
Leeds Committee of the West Yorkshire ICB https://www.healthandcareleeds.org/about/committee/
“The Leeds Committee of the West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board will make decisions about the best way to allocate resources across the city to have the biggest impact on improving health outcomes and people’s experiences and reducing inequalities.”
Chair: Rebecca Charlwood; ICB Accountable Officer: Tim Ryley
Meetings every two months. Public can ask questions at the beginning in person.
Leeds (Adults, Health and Active Lifestyles) Scrutiny Board
https://democracy.leeds.gov.uk/ieListMeetings.aspx?CId=1090&Year=0
“The boards are made up of elected councillors, and on some boards, co-optees. The boards may require the attendance of senior councillors, council staff or NHS staff at their meetings and whilst they do not make decisions, they aim to influence those who do by making public recommendations based on the evidence they have gathered, about how services can be improved for local residents. Purpose of this board is to focus on services for adults and public health services to monitor progress towards improving health, lifestyles and quality of care across the city; and providing oversight of integration and partnership working within and between the council and health bodies. The Board will also oversee the active lifestyle related functions and activity across the city”.
Monthly meetings. Public cannot ask questions but can apply to chair in advance to make a deputation. Leeds KONP wrote to previous chair saying Board needed to let public speak, in line with arrangement for other committees, but no response (then covid intervened).
Chair: Abigail Marshall Katung (Lab); Email Abigail.MarshallKatung@leeds.gov.uk
West Yorkshire Joint Health Overview and Scrutiny Board https://democracy.leeds.gov.uk/mgCommitteeDetails.aspx?ID=1056
“The joint committee brings together West Yorkshire authorities to provide an overview of the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Plan and the work of the various boards that form part of the overall governance arrangements for the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership“.
Access to the Meeting: streamed live on Calderdale Council’s YouTube site.
http://www.calderdale.gov.uk/council/councillors/councilmeetings/index.jsp
This allows members of the public to view the meeting proceedings as they take place. If you have a question you wish to ask on a particular item, please inform the Chair and Calderdale Scrutiny Team ahead of the meeting. For help, advice and information about the meeting contact: Senior Scrutiny Support Officer: Mike Lodge; Email: Mike.Lodge@calderdale.gov.uk
Uncertain if face to face meetings have restarted or plans to restart?
Chair: Abigail Marshall Katung. Colin Hutchinson is a member (retired ophthalmologist; sits on KONP steering group; chair of Doctors for the NHS; Labour councillor).
Website does not seem to have meetings after 2020 so may be out of date; meetings about 3 monthly. Public can submit questions prior to meeting; before covid, these questions could be put in person.
Leeds Health and Wellbeing Board https://democracy.leeds.gov.uk/mgCommitteeDetails.aspx?ID=965
“The Health and Wellbeing Board helps to achieve our ambition of Leeds being a healthy and caring city for all ages, where people who are the poorest, improve their health the fastest. We are a group of senior representatives from organisations across Leeds, including Leeds City Council, the NHS, the community sector and Healthwatch, which represents views of the public.”
Chair: Councillor Fiona Venner (Lab.)
Healthwatch Leeds; https://healthwatchleeds.co.uk/
“Making your voice count in health and social care services in Leeds. We are here to help you get the best out of your local health and care services. We bring your feedback to those who plan and deliver services in Leeds.”
CEO Hannah Davies; team of 9 people. No public meetings, but Leeds KONP has had informal meetings with Hannah on occasions and have a good link with her.
We tend to think of Healthwatch as being somewhat tokenistic and mainly involved in doing surveys that are not much taken notice of. In some areas KONP groups have found Healthwatch to be a good campaigning ally. It is a pale imitation of Community Health Councils, without the same powers. https://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f2020
https://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f2731
https://www.bmj.com/content/359/bmj.j5208
https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n798
New: West Yorkshire Voice
https://www.wypartnership.co.uk/get-involved/west-yorkshire-voice
“As a Partnership we have asked Healthwatch (the independent health and social care champion) across West Yorkshire to develop a network of people, groups and organisations to feed directly into decisions about health and care. The network is called West Yorkshire Voice and will be developed in partnership with local people to ensure it is accessible to all groups of people and is inclusive and reflective of our communities”.
There is an application form to become a member available at the above link.
John Puntis/Leeds KONP/27/03/2023
Leeds Keep Our NHS Public 