News

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

VCSE Collaborative Update

In the latest update from the VCSE Collaborative we learn how they are supporting the roll out of Personalised Care training to enable VCSE Sector staff and volunteers in health and care roles to access free training and resources from the Personalised Care Institute.  The VCSE Collaborative also provided an update on their contribution to a system … Read more

Death of Her Majesty The Queen

We are very much saddened by the news of the passing of Her Majesty The Queen and appreciate our colleagues and communities from across Humber and North Yorkshire will be too. The Queen dedicated her life to public service and made several visits to our region during her reign, we are sure many of you … Read more

VCSE Collaborative Update 

In the latest update from the VCSE Collaborative we learn how they are creating a conceptual framework to ensure transparency in the grant making process and the distribution of funds from the HNY HCP to the VCSE sector, for the delivery of services and specific pieces of work. The VCSE Collaborative are also conducting a mapping … Read more

Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership’s Outpatients Transformation Programme produces animations to support patients with accessing appointments.

As part of the Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership’s Outpatients Transformation programme and to support new ways in which patients can access appointments, we are pleased to launch two patient focused short animations. These animations aim to support and empower patients by explaining what Patient Initiated Follow Ups (PIFU) are and describing … Read more

To mark Good Care Month in July, the Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Wellbeing Team invited nominations from our social care colleagues for our Wellbeing Kit giveaway.

We have created our wellbeing kits in partnership with HALSA wellbeing and they are based around the four key pillars of health and wellbeing: Eat Well, Sleep Well, Think Well and Feel Well.  Each of the kits contains a small gift that represents each of these. We have had some fantastic nominations, highlighting the amazing … Read more

Your Birthing Choices – we asked women and birthing people across Humber, North Yorkshire and Lincolnshire what was important to them when choosing where to give birth.

Across Humber and North Yorkshire, the NHS and local partners are looking at ways to improve healthcare in our region. Last year, as we started to consider how maternity and neonatal care could be delivered in the future, we launched a survey to hear from new and expectant mothers, women trying to conceive, surrogates, other … Read more