York Health and Care Partnership
The York Health and Care Partnership (YHCP) includes health and care organisations from across York who are working together to improve the health of our population.
Our Vision
Over the next decade, York will become healthier, and that health will be fairer. York Place will support delivery of the six big ambitions of our Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2022-2032:
- become a health generating city
- prevent now to avoid later harm
- start good health and wellbeing young
- make good health more equal across the city
- work to make York a mentally healthy city
- build a collaborative health and care system
Where we are now
- York has an ageing and growing population, with increases in hospital care, social care and GP usage
- York’s red flags are alcohol consumption, multiple complex needs, drug related deaths and student health
- one in nine people in York have more than one long-term condition, and there is an elective backlog across primary and secondary care
- under 18 admissions for mental health need with a high prevalence of common mental health illness, high suicide and high self harm rates
- one in ten people smoke, two in three adults are overweight or obese and one in seven live with depression
- York has a widening inequalities gap in healthy life expectancy, health of those living with a learning disability and school readiness.
Our priorities
Our priority includes our partnership ambitions to strengthen community integration across health and social care, and physical and mental health. The aim of our work is to improve models of community-based support which are preventative, so people do not need to seek professional help so often and can find mental wellness in connections and communities.
York Health and Care Partnership Annual Report and Joint Forward Plan
2024-25 has been a year of significant development in our Health and Care Partnership. We have made substantial progress against the plans we set out this time last year and are now in a position to further focus our plans and priorities for 2025-26. Our annual report serves two purposes – a look back at our achievements and progress against our 2024-25 plans, and a forward plan of what we will prioritise and act on in 2025-26.
