Career Development Month Blog

“Recruiting the health and social care workforce continues to be a challenge for many reasons and some of our work focuses on what support we can give to people wanting to work in the sector and how those already employed can continue to learn, develop and progress in their careers.”

– Tina Jenkinson & Victoria Wilkins, Project Managers of the Grow and Train Team at Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership.

VCSE Collaborative Update

The VCSE Collaborative’s vision is to enable the potential and impact of the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector to be realised by being fully integrated into the planning, design and delivery of health and care across Humber and North Yorkshire. The VCSE Collaborative meet on a monthly basis. Following each meeting we share … Read more

World Menopause Day 2022

“We all have a responsibility to learn more about what we can do to support people going through this stage in their lives.”

– Gursharan Panesar-Bell, Project Manager of Workforce Health and Wellbeing at Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership.

World Mental Health Day 2022: Start Conversations, Break the Stigma.

World Mental Health Day is an opportunity for everyone to raise awareness of mental health and to engage in conversations to break the stigmas surrounding mental health and wellbeing. According to MIND, the mental health charity, each year, one-in-four people will experience a mental health problem and too many do not know where to reach … Read more

Black History Month 2022 Blog

“I’m calling on colleagues across Humber and North Yorkshire to embrace the month of October, Black History Month, as an opportunity to stand up. To move from being bystanders to upstanders, from allyship to action.”

– Jayne Adamson, executive director of people at Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership and executive sponsor of the Humber and North Yorkshire Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Staff Network of Networks.

International sustainability best practice visit

On 26 September we hosted a visit to Hull University Teaching Hospital from Dr Sarah Joyce, the Lead Sustainable Development Officer for the Western Australian Department of Health who is in the process of setting up a Sustainable Development Unit in the Perth area. We asked Sarah about her visit to Hull University Teaching Hospital … Read more

Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS) action plan to improve equality and equity for mothers, babies, and maternity staff across the region.

The standard definition of high-quality care includes the requirement for it to be ‘Safe, Effective, Efficient, Timely, Equitable and with a good user experience’. To reflect the ambitions of the maternity transformation strategy derived from the original ‘Better Births’ document in 2016 and the NHS Long Term plan (2019) the HNY LMNS coproduced an Equity … Read more