Health & Wellbeing

Supporting your Muslim colleagues during Ramadan

“Ramadan is personal and is different for everyone so it is important to not make assumptions. Not everyone fasts and this doesn’t make us any more or less Muslim. Most people are happy to answer questions where these are approached with an open mind, a willingness to learn and from a place of respect.”

Dr Yasmin Zaidy (she/her) – GP Partner, Lifestyle Medicine Physician, Diabetes GPwSI and co-chair of the Primary Care Against Racism (PCaR) Network

Stress Awareness Month – Stress is anti-rest!

April is Stress Awareness Month and an opportunity to reflect on how we deal with pressure, cope with stress, and whether there are better ways that we can manage. Stress is our reaction to a challenging situation or life event bringing about feelings of worry, threat, or that things are out of control. In the … Read more

Wellbeing blog

“Never before has taking care of our people across health and care been more important… We may not be able to put the breaks on the rollercoaster, but we can sit next to and support each other to ride out the highs and the lows. We can all commit to taking care of ourselves like we take care of those we’re here to serve.”

– Emma Marshall, Head of culture and transformation at NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICB.

International Women’s Day 2023

Women across Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership came together this week to #EmbraceEquity and mark International Women’s Day (IWD). IWD took place on Wednesday 8 March, which also happened to be the day of our latest ICB board meeting, and as such our strong female representation came together to celebrate the amazing … Read more

Blue Monday

“This Blue Monday take your wellbeing into your own hands and do something positive to brighten your January”

– Jo Kent Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership’s Suicide Prevention Programme Lead.

Partnership to help with financial wellbeing

We will be hosting a financial wellbeing week with a number of fantastic webinars/ workshops taking place and an opportunity to book an individual ‘financial wellbeing’ 1-to-1 with a financial coach from the independent financial education firm ‘Better with Money’.  These 1-to-1s are aimed at helping you to take control of your personal finances and … 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.